# Study shows that blue-eyed people share a common, single ancestor. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 31, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/study-shows-that-blue-eyed-people-share-a-common-single-ancestor/435781 "2008-01-31T22:43:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/study-shows-that-blue-eyed-people-share-a-common-single-ancestor/435781/61 "2008-02-02T15:58:43Z")
Hello cousins _ahem_ Now that we’ve found each other, I need to borrow $20. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/study-shows-that-blue-eyed-people-share-a-common-single-ancestor/435781/62 "2008-02-02T22:57:17Z")
[QUOTE=Mishell] I got an error message that says I can’t have brown eyes when my mom has blue and my dad has green. ☹ [/quote] Whoa, are you serious? I mean, you actually have brown eyes and your parents have blue and green? I guess with what **Mahna Mahna** posted, anything is possible but that’s always something I had thought was impossible up until now. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/study-shows-that-blue-eyed-people-share-a-common-single-ancestor/435781/63 "2008-02-03T02:34:26Z")
When I was a child I had blue eyes, so we must have been related. Now my eyes are green, so we’re not related anymore. How does that color change thing work, anyhow? ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/study-shows-that-blue-eyed-people-share-a-common-single-ancestor/435781/64 "2008-02-04T03:19:43Z")
Hey fellow blue-eyers. Since the name of our great-great-great-…-great aunt has been lost to the midsts of time, she deserves a fitting moniker. What’ll it be? [Alice?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_blue) [Carolina?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Blue_%28color%29) [Iris?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_%28color%29) [Maya?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Blue) [Tiffany?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_Blue) [Periwinkle?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periwinkle_%28color%29) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/study-shows-that-blue-eyed-people-share-a-common-single-ancestor/435781/65 "2008-02-04T03:54:33Z")
Greetings, cousins! Who has blue eyes? [Me](http://www.sunspace.org/miksu2002.jpg), that’s who. There was an interesting story in today’s Toronto Star. Apparently humans are [mutating faster than expected](http://www.thestar.com/News/article/299886). They mention the Milk-drinking Mutants of Europe, who continue to be able to digest milk in adulthood: > [@](#): > > One example cited by the new study is lactase, the gene that helps humans digest milk but which, for most of the planet’s population, switches off in adulthood. At some time in the past few thousand years, northern European dairy farmers – living with weaker sunlight therefore less vitamin D exposure – developed a mutation that lets them tolerate health-giving milk throughout their lives. (U of T’s Parra says other variations have also shown up in dairy-farming regions in Africa, even though sun exposure isn’t a problem.) Go Mutants! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Them](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Them](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Them)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/study-shows-that-blue-eyed-people-share-a-common-single-ancestor/435781/66 "2008-02-04T13:23:54Z")
Being a mutant is so cool. I can see in the dark! But full sunlight blinds me… I wonder if I can con Professor Xavier out of some money? ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/study-shows-that-blue-eyed-people-share-a-common-single-ancestor/435781/67 "2008-02-04T13:32:19Z")
I’ve got brown eyes but I’m a heterozygote. And if you think that makes me kinky, well, so be it. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/study-shows-that-blue-eyed-people-share-a-common-single-ancestor/435781/68 "2008-02-04T16:42:27Z")
Another blue eyed here (and I mean really blue). Nice to have such a big family all of a sudden, you can be a replacement for the existing big family that I have that I don’t speak to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/study-shows-that-blue-eyed-people-share-a-common-single-ancestor/435781.md?page=3)