All blue eyed people can be traced back to one person who lived near the Black Sea almost 10,000 years ago.

All blue eyed people can be traced back to one person who lived near the Black Sea almost 10,000 years ago.

All blue-eyed people are genetically related to a person who lived in the Black Sea region sometime between 6 – 10,000 years ago. The research was published in the Journal of Human Genetics. A mutation in a gene called OCA2 came into being nearly 8,000 years ago. It can be definitively traced back to an ancestor from the Black Sea.

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