All blue-eyed people on Earth share the same ancestor - msnNOW
It’s believed the first person to have blue eyes lived in Europe up to 10,00 years ago.But it’s a very specific kind of gene mutation, which has meant that while eyes turned blue, hair and skin colour still retained the same levels of pigment.In Britain, the majority of people – 48% – have blue eyes, while 30% of us are green eyed and just 22% have brown ones.Whereas there’s a pretty big variation in iris shades between green and brown, blue eyes have a tiny variation in the amount of melanin present.