# Human Evolution?

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**Created:** [June 9, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-evolution/584908 "2011-06-09T20:49:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-evolution/584908/19 "2011-06-09T21:52:15Z")

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> [@SoulFrost](#):
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> I’m not sure. He’s not the one who initially said that recessive genes are genes which are declining in frequency. He said _regressive_, and it was other people who assumed that he meant _recessive_, then challenged his arguments on those grounds.
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> Blue eyes are, in fact, becoming less common (at least among white Americans.) The guy said _regressive_… maybe he actually meant _regressive_.

Boy am I stupid. Found this:

> [@Human evolution](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-evolution/584121/106):
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> do you no what recessive means? it means decreasing gene. The number of people with blue eyes is x in 100 years it will be less than x in 10000 years time it will be 0. the gene or genes as some one pointed out will no longer exist.
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> The number of people with blue eyes is decreasing because the gene is research it on google please i feel like i’m talking to a brick wall.

Sorry.

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