I’m Probably Related To You…

So, I woke up early this morning and decided to check out old archives at livescience.com; I found some thing very interesting, so interesting I decided it was blog worthy.  According to new research, every one with blue eyes has one common ancestor.  Weird, right?  Apparently the scientists dug around for the genetic mutation that makes blue eyes and decided that it developed thousands of years ago.  Jesus doesn’t have blue eyes after all.

Any way, so what they’re saying is that originally, every human had brown eyes and all of a sudden this asshole mutation comes around and mixes shit up.  I have blue eyes, I would rather have brown but, what are you gonna do?  So if you have blue eyes, you’re genetically linked to me through one single ancestor who’s genes were fucked up.  Also, according to one line in said article (with no information following), that blue eyed individuals have more kids than brown eyed folks.  Interesting.

It doesn’t mention, however, any other eye color.  I don’t know why, but I’m assuming that they’re all mutations as well.  I can accept the fact that this particular eye color is a “mutation”, but what I’m wondering is why this certain genetic mutation doesn’t apply to your skin color or even hair color.  All three factors involve melanin.   So why wouldn’t it affect any of those?  We’ve all heard of albinism, which is obviously a genetic mutation but I mean, that doesn’t go to say all albino’s are related to each other.

This article has just utterly confused me.  If you’re interested, you can find the news here…   http://www.livescience.com/health/080131-blue-eyes.html