Okay, it’s not telepathy or shapeshifting, but it turns out all blue eyed people are descended from one mutant born somewhere between 6000 - 10,000 years ago. That’s around the same time as the ability to digest dairy as adults evolved in Europe and the Middle East.

These days, new mutations are popping up for HIV resistance and a skewing of the circadian rythms. In fact, contrary to the Science Fiction vision that we’ll all be uniformly caramel colored people with medium brown hair and brown eyes in another few thousand years, scientific evidence indicates the rate of human mutation is actually speeding up now that we’ve decided this whole agriculture business means we can stay in one place and make lots of babies. That’s right - civilization mutates humans!