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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
Maybe you should read the whole post before proclaiming your magnificence, we were talking about all blue eyed people coming from a common ancestor and in reading the article, they came to the conclusion that it's because of a special gene, I pointed out most all babies are born with blue eyes, they change later. My nephew was born with blue eyes, he now at 1 year old has brown eyes like his mother.
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You missed a large part of the puzzle.
The REASON why babies have blue eyes is, and I'll quote from your own link:
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You inherit your eye color from your parents, but no matter what the color is now, it mayp have been blue when you were born. Why? Melanin, the brown pigment molecule that colors your skin, hair, and eyes, hadn't been fully deposited in the irises of your eyes or darkened by exposure to ultraviolet light.
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Not ALL babies are born with blue eyes, but some of the ones born with blue eyes change to darker colors as
Melanin is released.
Now here's where the link to the first article comes in, pay close attention:
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The mutation affected the so-called OCA2 gene, which is involved in the production of melanin, the pigment that gives color to our hair, eyes and skin.
"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," Eiberg said.
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Now you understand why babies being born with blue eyes that later darken in no way disproves what these scientists have found.