Blue eyes have captivated humans for centuries - but how did this rare eye colour come about, and why are people with blue eyes so rare?

Do you have blue eyes? We talked to experts to discover curious facts about baby blues, including whether your biological family is bigger than you ever imagined.

New research shows that all blue-eyed people share a common ancestor. This person lived more than 6,000 years ago and carried a genetic mutation that has now spread across the world. The exact ...

A groundbreaking genetic study led by Dr Hans Eiberg and his team at the University of Copenhagen has traced all blue-eyed individuals back to a single common ancestor who lived approximately ...

Individuals A and B both have brown eyes, even though A is heterozygous and B is homozygous (dominant). Only people with a homozygous recessive genotype can have blue eyes as shown by individual C.

New research shows that all blue-eyed people share a common ancestor. This person lived more than 6,000 years ago and carried a genetic mutation that has now spread across the world. The exact ...