Blue Eyes Aren’t Random—Research Traces Them Back to One Prehistoric Human It sounds like a myth at first — something ...

Do you have blue eyes? We talked to experts to discover curious facts about baby blues. Like, are all blue-eyed people related?

North Dakota and Minnesota, we need to talk. Especially you blue-eyed folks. According to an alarming article from 1921, you might be a public menace. Buried in the pages of a San Francisco newspaper ...

Is there a link between blue eyes and the risk of alcoholism? — -- There's a new potential clue in the ongoing effort to understand the genetic links to alcoholism: eye color. People with lighter ...

Blue eyes result from a genetic mutation that occurred approximately 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. This mutation affected the OCA2 gene, which plays a crucial role in the production of melanin, the ...

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