According to a new research people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team of scientists has tracked down a genetic mutation that leads to blue eyes. The mutation occurred between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. Before then, there were no blue eyes. The scientists engaged ion the research say originally, we all had brown eyes. 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. The team discovered this by having examined DNA from mitochondria, the cells' energy-making structures, of blue-eyed individuals in countries including Jordan, Denmark and Turkey. This genetic material comes from females, so it can trace maternal lineages.
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Islam! Christianity! Judaism! Buddhism! …………etc.
These are little streams traveling down toward the ocean
Some see streams coming down the mountains! and simply ignore the fact that none of the streams started from mountain tops,
they started from the Ocean!
The tension is not in which is better!
The tension is between
LOVE and HATE
Truth and lies
Right and wrong!
Good and bad …………. Etc!
Maybe Rumi said it the BEST!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CINLONC97as
Parviz
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Question?
How do you draw the color of LOVE?
do you remember?
Rumi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwdtpugTtw0
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Parviz
Hello theworldaroundus,
Your topic is very precise and concise- you have a neat style. You write like a true poet - did you learn from Rumi himself? Does this new theory falsify blue-eyed light skinned Aryans entering Iran and northern India milleniums before? If so, that could mean that the figures of blue-eyed Aryans that invaded the land of the Vedas and Avesta were nothing but myth.
Take care.
Wow, Fascinating. Love your blog btw.
very refreshing !!! only doctors can write such posts. Thank you for the simplicity because people like me can have very hard time with those medical terms.