... and even if you do not, you may find this interesting.

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Is it exactly, or is it sort of?

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Si à travers nos veines coule encore le sang...
Si dans les jeux d'enfants on entend encore l'accent...
Si nous sentons encore l'espoir de nos grands-parents...
Si dans les voiles du large souffle encore le vent...
Y'a jamais eu de Grand Dérangement.

This gene does something good for people. It makes them have more kids."

Huh?

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My guess is that he means that for 40% of all Europeans to have descended from one mutant a few millennia ago, there must have been some kind of genetic advantage that helped these mutants to reproduce early & often. You're right, that is a drastically over-simplified statement to make about such a complex issue...turning a new thoery into a media-friendly sound bite does not help the researchers' cause in any way that I can see...

Interesting anyway...I have green eyes myself, but I was spawned from a union of a very blue-eyed redhead & a dark brown-eyed brunette (so they tell me...does anybody really know who's your daddy?!?)

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I just told Most Honorable Son # 2 that he may be a Mutant like Xmen

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And I bet he was excited at the possibility.

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Clever? Nah, I ran out of that years ago. But if you find this, let me know, k?
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In memory of my friend skip...
Go then, there are other worlds than these

But what about us that have grey eyes?!

My eyes are grey, right?

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Clever? Nah, I ran out of that years ago. But if you find this, let me know, k?
"The road goes ever on..." ~ Tolkien

In memory of my friend skip...
Go then, there are other worlds than these

I heard this on the morning news a day or two ago (I think). Interesting.

I head this item on the even TV news last night.

My reaction is "well, duh!"

I mean, freakin' *humanity* resulted from a genetic mutation. That's how evolution works.

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Exactly correct, but I think the interesting part is that they've been able to isolate the mutant gene, & establish that it's a relatively recent development in human history...especially considering how pervasive the trait is.

I saw a related article some months back that stated that those of us with red hair are a dying breed due to the fact that the gene is a recessive one...I've seen some evidence in my own family that makes me think it's true, since neither of my kids have red hair, this in spite of not only my own but a few redheads in my wife's family tree.

This new article makes me wonder about the future of the blue-eyed gene, whether it may be more dominant or recessive...

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If the theory does not conform to the facts, then the facts must be discarded.

No good deed ever goes unpunished

Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, & beat you with experience.

It is a shame to see such a lovely piece of research blown away by their own shoddy practice. Mitochondrial DNA is a good way to tell how closely related segments of the population are. In this case they have been "mining" mDNA of blue eyed people with no regard to whether the mDNA (which must by definition come from the mother) has come from a blue eyed parent.

This is the equivalent of drawing conclusions about lemons from studying a bowl of mixed citrus. (Sit down citrus, not you.)

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