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We all probably know a number of people who have blue eyes (and may even possess a pair ourselves), but just about 10,000 years ago, blue-eyed humans were unheard of. [What about snow dogs like malamutes and Egyptian cats?]
The Buddha's blue eyes from Central Asia
For a long time, all humans had brown eyes, until one northern European with a genetic mutation [brought on by alien hybrid breeding, mating, abduction, and genetic manipulation] brought a whole new look to the human eyeball [on this planet].
To this day, every blue-eyed person is a descendant of that first azure-eyed [being]. [We're these the ETs who saw a human and said, "Come, let us make Man in our image, after Our likeness? Probably.]
Similar to skin color, eye color comes down to the amount of melanin, or pigment, that can be found in the iris. More melanin means darker eyes. And eyes that lack melanin in the first layer of the iris appear to be blue instead of brown.
In other words, blue eyes are not eyes that have blue pigment, they are eyes that lack brown pigment.
How does this happen? In 2008, researchers at the University of Copenhagen determined that people with blue eyes possess a genetic mutation that basically "turns off" the eyes' ability to create melanin. More
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