Unbelievable Reasons Why Blue-Eyed Humans Are Unique

For millennia, the blue color of the eyes has been adored and idolized. It quickly became the standard of beauty and a symbol of holiness. Today, blue-eyed people are taken for granted, as we see them everywhere. But did you know that at one point in the past, there was no blue eye color at all? For thousands of years, primitive people looked at the world exclusively with brown eyes, and then one day – POOF – a blue-eyed baby was born!

Here are some unbelievable reasons why blue-eyed humans are unique.

1. Genetic Mutation

The blue color of the eyes is the result of a genetic mutation that happened about six to ten thousand years ago, according to various sources. Believe it or not, all you people with baby-blues are the descendants of one single person who first had this mutation in the OCA2 gene, which disrupted the production of melanin in the iris.

The modern blue-eyed people have the same genetic mutation in the same place of their DNA, which is clear evidence of having one single common ancestor that was most likely born somewhere in the northwestern part of the Black Sea region (Ukraine, Moldova, Romania) during the Neolithic era.