{"id":82854,"date":"2023-12-10T07:08:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T07:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?p=82854"},"modified":"2023-12-10T07:08:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T07:08:04","slug":"all-green-eyed-people-can-trace-their-ancestors-to-this-remote-part-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/lifestyle\/all-green-eyed-people-can-trace-their-ancestors-to-this-remote-part-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"All green-eyed people can trace their ancestors to this remote part of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Designer babies: Scientist says eye colour selection \u2018years away\u2019<\/h3>\n

Green eyes are the rarest colour a person can have, and perhaps the most dazzling.<\/p>\n

Few can say they own the colour, though a handful of celebrities do such as Mila Kunis, Rihanna, Emma Stone, Paul Rudd and Drew Barrymore, and you’ll likely know one or two people yourself who have them.<\/p>\n

Such unique pigmentation hints at a strong genetic mutation, and one that must originate in a single place.<\/p>\n

For blue eyes, another sought-after colour, this comes along the breathtaking Black Sea coast, most likely in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

But for green eyes, you must cast your attention much further away to the far east, to a land known as Siberia, in northern Russia, where life is cold and difficult, and only the hardiest can survive.<\/p>\n

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The science tells us that green eyes were found in Siberia approximately 2,000 years ago during the Bronze Age.<\/p>\n

It is unclear from what colour green eyes emerge, but much like the gene mutation that led to blue eyes, some change had occurred in the region at some point in history.<\/p>\n

Today, that mutation is found in a different area though similar concentrated in a small region.<\/p>\n

According to a paper published in the European Journal of Human Genetics in 2013, certain individuals, those described as “homozygous”, are more predisposed to having green eyes.<\/p>\n

This, the researchers said, appears to be largely dependent on the region in which they live.<\/p>\n

For example, in the present-day, a person belonging to the Caucasus region \u2014 parts of Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan \u2014 has a higher probability of being born with green eyes than, say, someone living in Central Asia.<\/p>\n

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