When it comes to pigmentation, we are in even more treacherous waters. Eye color genes are plentiful, and if you want to know what color eyes a long-dead person had, we can give you probabilities, not answers: My report from the commercial ancestral company 23andMe tells me that 31 percent of people with the same version of the gene OCA2 as me have dark brown eyes, which means that 69 percent do not, and 13 percent have blue or green eyes. I have dark brown eyes—I know this because I own a mirror; if aliens were to dig me up in fifty thousand years and extract my DNA, on current knowledge what
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