In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in
the Red Queen's Race...
Hey, Blue Eyes.....
By Janet Evans
Monday, Feb 4 2008, 11:15 AM
Take a good look at that blue-eyed, blonde woman sitting next to you.
Or that blue-eyed, guy with jet-black hair.
Look familiar?
Like someone you might know?
How about Frank Sinatra? Any resemblance?
No way.....
Why am I asking?
New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor.
"A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye color of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today."
“Originally, we all had brown eyes”, said Professor Eiberg from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology. “But a genetic mutation affecting the OCA2 gene in our chromosomes resulted in the creation of a “switch”, which literally “turned off” the ability to produce brown eyes”.
Read the article at Psychorg.com à here
