"According to ScienceDaily.com a team of Copenhagen researchers has tracked a genetic mutation which occurred 6-10,000 years ago and is responsible for all the blue eyed people you see walking around today."
Armed with this tid-bit from Sardonic Sistah I am now tempted to say when asked about my eyes: "They are my paleolithic ancestor's genetic mutation."
What difference does it make "where" I got my eyes from? To be clear: I believe I have my mother's eyes. Though my mother jokingly grumbles that she doesn't get the effusive compliments I do, it is plain that our eyes are the same color (just not set against the same color skin). However, I often sense that the assumption is that the color of my eyes is evidence of a slave-era rape. And I suppose it could be evidence--but it is profoundly unsettling to think of this.
Today, I'm going to bank on the fact, that one of the folks on my father's side ended up with that mutation. And helped pass it on down to me.
