Nobody Ten Thousand Years Ago Had Blue Eyes

(((That's a very, very weird thing to say.)))

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Study finds humans still evolving, and quickly - Los Angeles Times.

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In the last 5,000 to 10,000 years, as agriculture was able to support increasingly large societies, the rate of evolutionary change rose to more than 100 times historical levels, the study concluded.

Among the fastest-evolving genes were those related to brain development, but the researchers aren't sure what made them so desirable, Hawks said.There are other mysteries too.

"Nobody 10,000 years ago had blue eyes," Hawks said. "Why is it that blue-eyed people had a 5% advantage in reproducing compared to non-blue-eyed people? I have no idea."

(((It's the top o' Google News today – folks, we're EVOLVING OUR HEADS OFF!!)))

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((("Oh wait – Evolution doesn't even exist, right? It's all a giant fraud!
More fool you, blue-eyes! Ha ha ha!")))

(((And if you think we're evolving now, wait till global warming kills off a few hecatombs of us.)))