How a Color Tells the Story of My People,” Imani Perry approaches her subject as an abundant and lyrical mystery ...

You probably know a number of people who have blue eyes (and you may possess them yourself), but just about 10,000 years ago, blue-eyed folks were unheard of. For a long time, all humans had brown ...

Researchers pin this genetic mutation to the area around the northwest of the Black Sea ... from fair Scandinavians to dark-skinned, blue-eyed people in countries like Turkey and Jordan.

The trait spread across populations from this ancestor, creating the diverse group of blue-eyed people we see today. The team traced the mutation to the northwest region of the Black Sea ...

Then you have something in common with most people around ... near-black—but scientists believe that they’re all slightly different manifestations of blue eyes or brown eyes.