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I know that there were no blue eyed people until ~6000 years ago due to a mutation and all blue eyed people have a single common anchestor.

But where in the world does it originate? I assume it originates from somewhere in Europe but is it known more specifically where like Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and so on or is it impossible to know?

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  • $\begingroup$ Wikipedia has your answer already ! $\endgroup$
    – Dexter
    Oct 27, 2015 at 10:31
  • $\begingroup$ @Dexter Exactly where is the answer to the "Where in the world..." question? $\endgroup$ Oct 27, 2015 at 10:46
  • $\begingroup$ @fileunderwater Reference no 46 $\endgroup$
    – Dexter
    Oct 27, 2015 at 12:05
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    $\begingroup$ @fileunderwater I agree I didn't elaborate. Sorry about that. However that doesn't mean I posted uninformative link. Link suggests 7000 y old skeleton with homozygous HERC2–OCA2 locus which is strongly associated with blue eyes. In fact first link from google search gave me origin of blue eyes in Black Sea region (and guess which gene was correlated ? OCA2. $\endgroup$
    – Dexter
    Oct 27, 2015 at 14:58
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    $\begingroup$ @Dexter Sorry about the wording "uninformative link" - I meant that the link text was uninformative, not necessarily the content. Your last link is the first one that seems to provide an answer to the question though. You should post it as an actual answer instead. $\endgroup$ Oct 27, 2015 at 15:29

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