Yo, blue-eyed people, you're all related!

[gategrrl]

So sez the genetist in this article, who's been tracking this mitochondrial marker (that's the DNA that everyone inherits through their mother) all over the world. Blue eyed folks can trace their ancestry back to one person, according to this doctor.

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[brihana25.livejournal.com]

FoxNews ran this story early last week. Their original headline was "Blue Eyed People All Genetic Mutants"

Yeah, that headline lasted about half an hour. :) I couldn't help but give Hubby and Nerdboy grief about being mutants, though.

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

Oh, go figure, I'm a day late (or week late). I like the Fox news title better than the article I linked to, sheesh. Mutants? LOL. Far as I'm concerned, we're ALL mutants! Blue eyed folks, their mutation is just obvious!

(and your icon? Icon Love!) Han did shoot first!

[betacandy.livejournal.com]

My opinion is: someone spent money on this? Do we need to know this? I mean, is there something desperately wrong with blue-eyed people and knowing where they came from could save them?

Ignore me. I've had too much coffee, which makes me really bitchy. :D

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

*I* might be more secure knowing the blue-eyed person I'm walking with is a mutation! (heh. I've known one or two who *could* very well be the classic kind of mutation, known all over the world as a "rat bastard" - but that wouldn't have anything to do with eye color)

But more seriously, I think it's all part of that type of research to uncover the human family tree. Eye color is easy to follow. Whether there's another agenda, I don't know.