This scientific discovery not only sheds light on the origin of blue eyes but also reveals how a small genetic mutation spread across generations, affecting millions of people worldwide.

As much as 80% of the global population is believed to have brown eyes, while only 8 to 10% of people worldwide have blue eyes, 5% have hazel eyes and about 2% of all people have green eyes.

Scientists have said that every blue-eyed person on Earth is able to trace their ancestry to a single individual who lived between 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. They have also worked out that long ...

You probably know a number of people who have blue eyes (and you may possess them yourself), but just about 10,000 years ago, blue-eyed folks were unheard of. For a long time, all humans had brown ...

Blue-eyed folks may be rarer, but their eye color has a fascinating history. All blue-eyed people can trace their ancestry back to a single genetic mutation that occurred thousands of years ago in ...