Posted by Monte Aldone Studies carried out by scientists from the Institute of Forensic Genetics at the University of Copenhagen have concluded that all blue-eyed people share a common ancestor, someone who lived 6,000 to 10,000 years ago near the area by the Black sea. Researchers analyzed and compared the unique genetic make-up of the chromosomes in the iris from 155 blue-eyed individuals from diverse regions such as Denmark, Turkey and Jordan. All of the subjects that participated in the study had the exact same genetic "mutations" in specific chromosomes of the eye with very little variation on the genes, indicating that the "mutation" responsible for blue-eyes first arose and spread relatively recently. (Source: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00439-007-0460-x ) Scientists conclude that this blue-eyed family spread out from an area north of the Black Sea following the last ice age. These people were among the proto-Indo-European Aryans who subsequently spread agriculture into western Europe and later rode horses into Iran and India, explains Professor Hans Eiberg of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Copenhagen. Blue eyes are a recessive trait, and the gene must be inherited from both parents. (Green eyes involve a related but different gene that is recessive to brown but dominant to blue.) Following the ending of the last Ice Age, many Europeans inherited this rare gene associated with blue-eyed people that differentiated them from the rest of the human races. Indeed, it appears that the elite and nobility that organized the earliest known agricultural civilizations all shared this trait, seemingly coming from the same bloodline. When we look to ancient Egypt, arguably one of the world's oldest known civilizations, we find many blonde and fair-haired mummies. Since WW2, western academia backed and lobbied by politically motivated forces at the United Nations has pushed for a Marxist inspired multicultural view of history, which has ignored archeological evidence in favor of political correctness. However well intentioned, this false perspective has cast much confusion over human origins: Who we are and how we came to be. Another one of the oldest documented civilizations, credited with having the first writing, schools, courts, and many other "firsts" were the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia. The ancient Sumerians thought that blue eyes were a sign of the gods. The Sumerian nobility were blue eyed and fair haired, as most of their busts show. These blue eyed statues (pictured below) are of Sumerians from the early/mid 3rd millennium BC. ''...they (the Sumerians) certainly belong to the same racial division of mankind as the nations of Europe, they are scions of the Caucasian stock’’ - Arthur Keith (quoted in Ur Excavations, 1927) Gautama Buddha's physical body is traditionally regarded as having the "Thirty-two Characteristics of a Great Man". These 32 characteristics are described throughout the Pali Canon, and are also regarded as being present in Cakravartin kings as well. #29 on this ancient list is "Eyes deep blue". Two thousand years ago a mysterious and little known civilization, with a blue-eyed elite, ruled the northern coast of Peru. Its people were called the Moche. They built huge pyramids that still dominate the surrounding countryside; some well over a hundred feet tall. Archeologists working at Peru's Huaca Pucllana ruins recently pulled a blue-eyed mummy from an ancient tomb thought to be from the ancient Wari culture that flourished before the Incas. Piercing blue eyes undimmed by the passing of 1,300 years, this is the "Lady of the Mask" – a mummy with striking blue eyes, whose discovery could reveal the secrets of a lost culture at the Huaca Pucllana Pyramid located in Lima, Peru. It is the first time a tomb from the region’s Wari culture has been discovered intact and gives historians the chance to learn about the ancient pre-Incan civilizations. The Lord of Sipán's tomb (pictured below) is held by some archaeologists to be one of the most important archaeological discoveries in this region of the world in the last 30 years, as the main tomb was found intact and untouched by thieves. He was called Viracocha by the Incas, Kukulkan by the Mayas, Quetzalcoatl by the Aztecs, Gucumatz in Central America, Votan in Palenque and Zamna in Izamal. He and in some cases his ‘men’ were described as being tall, bearded, with white skin, and beautiful emerald blue eyes. Fray Juan Torquemada, the Franciscan missioner, who collected traditions about Quetzalcoatl from the natives of Old Mexico, says: “Quetzalcoatl had blonde hair, and wore a black robe sewn with little crosses of red color.” (Image below published by the Secretary of Education, Mexico) Scientists stress that the genetic variation, as the press release puts it, is "neither a positive nor a negative mutation." That's a bit disingenuous, as the mutation also produces greater instance of blond hair (sexually selected for even today) and fair skin, which confers a survival advantage by stimulating greater production of vitamin D in sun-starved northern European countries near the arctic circle - where blue eyes are still most prevalent. Ninety-five percent of Europeans in Scandinavian countries have blue eyes. They are also found to have a greater range of hair and skin color. Comparatively, Europe has a wider variety of hair color and skin pigment than is found in any other continent in the world. These "mutations" are relatively recent as Europe was colonized only a few thousand years ago, say mainstream scientists. Through interbreeding, the brunette with blue eyes (Neanderthal-type) was evidenced about 35,000- 25,000 years ago by invading Cro magnon types from the Atlantic (Tall, RH negative blood type, Solutrean tool kit). “The question really is, ‘Why did we go from having nobody on Earth (known) with blue eyes 10,000 years ago to having 20 or 40 percent of Europeans having blue eyes now?” John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison said. “This gene does something good for people. It makes them have more kids.”
In contrast, most mammals on earth share the "normal" form of the gene. The six-letter sequence is exactly the same among mice, horses, cows, rats, dogs, cats, monkeys, chimpanzees and humans with brown eyes. (No word on what gives Siberian huskies and Siamese cats blue eyes.)
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Cynthia Allen McLaglen
1/31/2015 10:53:42 am
Europeans came from Southern Asia and then went up into the Caucus. Their ancesters and the Asian ancesters all came from F M170 (Seth) which is known named by modern genealogists, as the Eurasian clan which is ancient, and came from around Persia and India. One quarter of the people who went to America came from this ancient clan and probably gave the Peruvian, (above in your illustration) the blue eyes. Later Vikings visited North America and some stayed and intermarried with ethnic Americans making some more blue eyed people. Do not forget that the females are different from the male history and Haplogroups and they could have also contributed to Blue Eyes-(or green eyes).
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J. Michael Wall
2/8/2015 02:31:09 pm
Cynthia, is it likely or even possible that blue-eyed, blonde-haired Siberians could have long ago visited the Northwest coast of America?
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Cynthia Allen McLaglen
9/6/2015 01:32:06 am
Yes that is possible also. Light eyes hair and skin is the result of moving to an area or climate that is dark, where the sun is not so bright. YOU WOULD DIE IF YOU HAD A BAD DIET AND THE SUN HELPS YOU TO GET SOME VITAMINS YOU NEED TO SURVIVE, THOSE THAT MANAGED TO SURVIVE MIGHT HAVE MUTATED TO GET LIGHTER EYES, HAIR AND SKIN, AND RECEIVE MORE VITAMINS FROM THE SUN. THAT GAVE THEM A BETTER CHANCE. INUIT HAD A GOOD DIET OF FISH AND MEAT SO THERE WAS NOT SUCH A STRAIN TO CHANGE BROWN EYES TO BLUE, HOWEVER THEIR SKIN GOT LIGHTER PROBABLY BECAUSE THEY HAD TO COVER THEMSELVES FROM THE COLD.
Patricia delaney
3/10/2017 03:10:12 am
My dads coat of arms claims the Delaney family originated in Viking country in Norway. I am blonde with ocean blue eyes. The Delaney's moved to Ireland. So I'm Irish and norweigin
Cynthia McLaglen
2/9/2015 02:48:32 am
The connection could have happened from Siberia or Vikings or the ancient Haplogroup FM170 (Seth). When people came to explore this "new" land, they reported seeing Ethnic American Indians with blue eyes. Examining the individuals Haplogroup might reveal the ancestry which caused this. You can have Ethnic looking Africans with blue eyes because of their ancestry being part European as well.
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Dr. Mike
5/22/2017 06:31:45 pm
Cynthia...The theory you are referencing regarding sunlight and vitamins is an older outdated one since the discovery that blue eyes are from a RECENT mutation 8,000-10,000 years ago. This is not enough time for EVOLUTION to have influenced (caused the genetic mutation) to create pale skin, blue eyes and blonde hair. THE REAL EXPLANATION FOR ALL THESE THINGS IS MUCH SIMPLER: BLONDE HAIR, BLUE-EYED FAIR-SKINNED PEOPLE ARE DESCENDANTS FROM A MUTATED FORM OF ALBINISM. This is why the "change" (gene mutation) happened so quickly (IMMEDIATELY in the next generation 8-10K yrs ago)...and not via a (slower) response to the Ice Age European environment and living in caves. People did NOT get hairier because they lived in caves. All human are warm-blooded "tropical" people. Having more body hair will not help warm you in an Ice Age any more than a human without body hair. You think a gorilla would be happy in the Arctic? ALL HUMANS are descended from Africa...which means dark skin, dark eyes and dark hair. The "type" of hair (seen in Africans) changed when early humans moved towards modern day India...but the COLOR (blonde/red) did not change till the albino-type mutation 10,000 years ago. Blue-eyed people do not see better in caves and pale skin did not happen after years of living in caves without sunlight/vit. D. These "evolutionary" theories have all been laid to rest by the recent discovery that blue-eyes have only been around for 10,000 years. Us blue-eyed people with our blonde hair and fair skin are all just the descendants of an albino-like mutation that occurred in Europe. And we are all VERY closely related to each other which is very interesting.
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Anna
9/28/2017 02:11:33 pm
Interesting. I came to this site because I casually was wondering whether albino genes were the original causal factor in creating lighter skinned, fair haired, blue eyed people.
DeeDee
9/29/2017 05:58:13 am
I have never bought the we are all out of Africa. Just a damn theory. Otherwise everyone would have African DNA which we do not.
Jason
7/13/2021 04:52:40 pm
I really hope you aren't in a teaching position.
Paul Holloway
3/4/2015 06:02:40 am
Absolutely fascinating. I'd sometimes wondered about my blue eyes but never would have guessed the origination: time, human movement and the presence of so many across so wide - well the entire planet save Australia and Antarctica!! Thanks for the information!
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Mike David B
8/28/2015 01:54:15 am
I've been trying to find out for a while now, but are these findings the results of a singular study is widely acknowledged by today's leading theorists ?
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1/18/2016 06:10:27 pm
Cynthia, this theory sounds good about light skin/eyes necessary in the dark north to enable a human to absorb more sunlight for vitamin E production, until you remember many of the northern Eskimo (etc) have brown eyes and brown/black hair. Also, Scandinavians consume a great deal of fish and seafood to give them vit E. If Neanderthal lived earliest in the warmer Levant, how did they manage to have the gene for light hair/eyes/skin for many thousand years. My belief- N mama was possibly slighter lighter OOA and going north enhanced it. Harder to get a great tan in the north.
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S. Williams
10/31/2016 12:43:51 am
I'ts not vitamin E, it's Vitamin D. We make it in our bodies in response to sunlight (specifically some ultraviolet wavelenghts). We can also get it from our diet, which explains why some people have light skin, to maximize the exposure to sunlight so they and their children don't get rickets (soft bones from lack of D), but if you get it from your diet, that's not as big of a factor and you get the Inuit, and people like them who aren't as light skinned.
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firas .D.sirhan
2/15/2016 01:35:54 am
iam Arabic my father has lite blue eyes my cusin has lite green eyes my brother has a kind of red hair ,i have tested dna and my cusin the green eyes
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firas .D.sirhan
3/16/2016 12:29:47 am
i am sorry for my bad English writing, and i am here again to rewrite my subject about a blue eyes and Gene
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3/28/2016 07:33:32 pm
I don't have my own email, I use my boyfriends'. I am disabled. I can't afford to have Ancestry.com analyze my DNA. But I have blue eyes and med/dark blonde hair. My hair has some gray in it n
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4/9/2016 06:24:07 am
God has a formulaic language based upon the manipulation of how numerics and linguistic expression impacts the interactions between individuals, cultures, etc. and it should be recognized that our 5 pointed frame is easily a syncretic association with the 5 color of the visible light spectrum BLUE so have 2 blue eyes is clearly a way for the omnipotent God to express his fertility and amazingly it is also aesthetically pleasing
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Peruvian
5/23/2016 11:12:51 pm
Blue eyes my balls. I am from Peru. Moche people left an enormous amount of pottery depicting faces and features. They don't register blue-eyed people. The photo that was depicted corresponds to Kuelap, which is in the Amazon, (not the Moche region), a much inferior civilization. The colour in the mask is edited. Also, the Lord of Sipan mask, the original eyes are black not blue.
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S. Williams
10/31/2016 12:50:53 am
THANK YOU, for posting that. I was suspicious of some of the photos due to the similarity in all of the blues that were depicted. I was also thinking that just because some ancient masks may have used a blue stone in some cases, doesn't mean that the individuals were blue eyed. It' means they used blue stones. Maybe they thought it looked eerie.
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Anna
9/28/2017 02:15:40 pm
Thanks for this post. Good to know that 'fake news' will be found out.
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Sara Larsen
7/19/2016 07:22:40 pm
I have light blond hair and blue eyes. I am of Danish & Scottish decent. My father has brown eyes and dark hair (100% Danish) and my mother green eyes and dark blond hair (Scottish). So how does this figure. Both of my sons also have blue eyes and blond to dark blond hair while tgeir dad had dark hair and brown eyes. My granddaughter has the same blue eyes and dark blond hair, but her mother has very dark hair and brown eyes. So, I am having trouble identifying this trait as a recessive gene.
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Sheila G
11/15/2017 11:03:02 am
People always think the latest scientific study is the 100% truth and others are uninformed by older theories. In 50 years it's likely that the current theory will be disproven. I was also reading recently that blue and green eyes are no longer considered a recessive gene.
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Sarah
11/15/2017 11:24:16 am
As far as everyone feeling the cold the same that's absolutely not true and I know from personal experience. My boyfriend is from Siberia and he doesn't feel the cold the way that I do. His skin is warmer to the touch than any other man I've dated. He also has very little body hair btw. I also had a surgeon tell me that it's often more difficult to cut through the skin of a lighter skinned person and that red heads often require more anesthesia. Science is discouraged from publishing data that isn't politically correct or that offends someone. There could be 100 studies done that specifically show evidence that one type of people learns more quickly than the others but it would never be accepted. Then some pseudo scientist would do a study proving the opposite and everyone would cite that study because it says what they want to believe. Btw I didn't say that one race of people is more intelligent than others. However, I'm not Asian but I wouldn't be surprised if Asians were proven to have on average higher intelligence in many areas.
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10/9/2016 04:17:24 pm
Assuming that Europeans are Indoeuropeans it's a an oversimplification. There are other European groups that they have no relation with the Indos.
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SorryNotSorry
5/1/2017 11:37:25 pm
Blue eye color in some of these stautes are just a metaphor.
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Dr. Mike
5/22/2017 08:00:58 pm
Blonde hair, blue eyes and pale skin ARE ALL FROM GENETIC MUTATIONS similar to ALBINISM!! It's that simple. Here's why environmental evolutionary factors did not influence the mutation:
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Anna
9/28/2017 02:20:35 pm
Dr.Mike
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Ace Justus
11/6/2017 01:29:33 pm
Albinos can get sickle cell they are still considered African decent blonde hair light eye Caucasians are a different human race than albinos ..there is a difference between the two human species
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Sarah
11/15/2017 11:26:17 am
Exactly
Duncan McFarlane
8/14/2017 11:23:19 pm
The stuff about Egypt in this article is very misleading. The blonde and blue eyed Egyptian mummies all come from the last dynasty of ancient Egypt - the Ptolemaic dynasty - which was made up of Macedonians - starting with Alexander the Great's former General Ptolemy. Pretty sure there were no blonde, blue eyed Egyptians before that point, and after that point, would be restricted to royalty and senior members of the court, a minority of the army who were veterans of Alexander's campaigns and some Galatian mercenaries
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Duncan McFarlane
8/15/2017 05:24:02 am
Reading the whole article again maybe i've been too closed minded about this.
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Dd
3/19/2022 04:27:43 am
Hitler had dark hair and dark eyes
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Anna
9/28/2017 02:27:42 pm
Oh for Gods sake! Don't let political correctness get in the way of research.
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Atlas Dziko Justus
11/6/2017 12:54:24 pm
Green eyes are actually a bit more recessive than blue eyes ..green eyes make up around 2% of the population and blue eyes 8% of the population..my Mother and father have green eyes brown hair but both had blonde hair as a child my father was platinum blonde hair as a child my mothers eyes are lighter green and fathers darker ..their first daughter turned out blonde hair blue eyes throughout her adult life but me being the youngest sibling I was born with brown hair green eyes and remained the same throughout adulthood but I produced a blue eyed blonde hair daughter with a blonde hair blue eyed man and now that she’s hit her teen years her blue eyes remained the same but hair has changed to light brown... you would think blue eyes are more recessive than green but in reality green eye color is more rare and blue seems to win out more.
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Hannah
2/26/2022 11:29:06 am
I have blue eyes medium brown hair and pale skin with freckles , my both parents and brother have brown eyes my daughter has brown eyes fair hair her father dark hair now but fair as child with brown eyes so everything I've read doesn't answer the question we're my ancensory comes from hope to have a better insight
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Harald Petrul
8/7/2022 04:47:25 pm
blue eyes paracas peru
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