Comments on: Blue-eyed humans: you’re all mutants!

By: yakubdajeweler

yakubdajeweler — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:33:15 +0000

of course we are all mutations. we all come from the a-sexual hermaphrodite to the x and y. mutation simply means change. without change, one cannot evolve. therefore, two blue-eyed blonde haired humans cannot evolve.

By: evo god

evo god — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:05:54 +0000

ok this is how it happened i know cuz i went back in time yesterday and watched it if you have a male blue eyed man call him 1 he breeds with fem brown call her 2, now there kid is 3, he breeds with another fem brown 4 both kids have blue gene ok now back then incest wasnt tabbo it was needed due to low population they have a kid 5 there kid now has blue gene due to double resesive gene !! bang that is it now 3 breeeds back to 1 and you got tripple blue witch would make blonde blue eye ther eis your answer ok straight from me a ten year old kid try to find a flaw in my logic i dare you !!

By: seafred

seafred — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:43:30 +0000

I have been doing some DNA testing with Family Tree DNA and in the National Genographic study. I believe we will know a lot more about this when all the latest data is in. NGeo has tested over a hundred thousand indigenous people all over the world and many like myself have put our own in the pot. I am of Viking stock and that is clear. It will take private individuals sharing data to find out what genes we share. DNA testing for ancestry is pretty new and many that take the test still don’t wish to talk about their finding in the gene department, but that will change in time. The DNA studies should put this to rest in the future with out a lot of speculation. I think??

By: mgreenwoodusa

mgreenwoodusa — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:16:02 +0000

Seafred, Your mom didn’t overcome anything. She passed on the recessive gene because its all she had, while your dad clearly had the recessive gene and passed it on to 3 of his 4 boys. The point of this article, though, is a common ancestor who had the mutation and is the progenitor of all peoples with blue eyes. However, if he was the only one with the gene, given our understanding of recessive genes it should have disappeared *Unless* others had the same mutation. Meaning there is not one common ancestor but many.

By: seafred

seafred — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:43:22 +0000

Mom was a blue eyed blond and Dad was dark haired and amber brown eyes. I am blond with deep blue eyes and have two brothers with lesser blue and less blond but still blond hair with only one brother with dark brown eyes. The brother with dark brown eyes and dark hair was born white headed then it turned darker as he aged. So how was my Mom able to overcome the recessive gene and pass it on to three of four boys. I love blue eyes and have passed it on to my children. Gorgeous blue eyed children and grand children. Sorry we are Gods and the rest of you plebs are mutants.%-)

By: mgreenwoodusa

mgreenwoodusa — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:44:57 +0000

Bobbo,

Someone’s understanding is clearly incorrect but it is not necessarily mine. The problem with your response is that it works ONLY if there is someone else out there with the recessive gene (as you said until it matches up with another recessive gene)… but if there is a single person with this mutation.. how would anyone else have the recessive gene. If you presume a single common ancestor as the article claims that had the gene and he mates with someone else who would have both dominant genes their offspring should have brown eyes. Then even if that offspring carries the recessive gene the only other possible mates (assuming no incest) would have only the dominant genes. Eventually, the gene would dissapear unless it was very consistantly passed on as recessive and started to resurface down the line with others from the same downline. The only explanation that makes sense to me is that it wasn’t limited to a single individual.

By: bobbo

bobbo — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:21:46 +0000

#35–greenwood==you ask “they should be wiped out in that generation right? what am I missing.”

Well, they aren’t wiped out in a generation so your understanding of how recessive genes works is objectively speaking incorrect? And that is what you are missing. The gene for blue eyes is recessive meaning it is in the genes but not expressed until it matches up with another recessive gene. You might review the work of Mendel on how to make yellow peas?

By: Mister Catshit

Mister Catshit — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:02:34 +0000

#36, OM

Ya think so ??? Just wait until you get to Bumfusk Utah. Once you meet James Hill in his frilly pink undies you’ll high tail it back to the civilized world.

By: OmegaMan

OmegaMan — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:48:55 +0000

Ve are zee Master Mutation Race! Today Escondido…tomorrow zee Vorld!

By: mgreenwoodusa

mgreenwoodusa — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:14:29 +0000

How does this make sense. Blue eyes are recessive. So if one guy gets the mutation.. and the person he has kids with doesn’t (or she has it and he doesn’t).. they should be wiped out in that generation right? what am I missing?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:01:57 +0000

Nobody else noticed the dual meaning of the title? Crazy, I read it one way the first time, another way the second, without even thinking about it. WEEEIRDDD..

By: Lou Bix

Lou Bix — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:21:58 +0000

I like sex with blonde mutants.

By: Mister Catshit

Mister Catshit — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:57:28 +0000

#6, moss,

… the blue-eyed DNA originated in Afghanistan.

Funny, I don’t feel very Talibanish. I do like opium though.

By: Mister Catshit

Mister Catshit — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:54:21 +0000

#10, OFTLO,

Okay Blue-Eyed posters…

What is your secret X-Man Mutant power?

Well, when I see an attractive, blue eyed blond (with blond roots) I can get it up in under 10 minutes !!! Go ahead, top that, mortal.

NOTE: Brown eyed blonds (with dark roots) take longer.

By: kip72

kip72 — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:33:15 +0000

Awww yeah, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!
Except with blue eyes instead of turtle eyes.