Africans are one of the most genetically diverse groups of people in the world. Most people would think Africans are mostly dark skinned, with brown eyes and black hair. But deep in the South Pacific, ...

Do you know Africans can have blue eyes and blonde hair naturally? You'll recall that a woman in Ilorin, Risikat Azeez and her daughters went viral for their blue eyes. Her husband left her because ...

Most prehistoric Europeans had dark skin, hair and eyes well into the Iron Age, about 3,000 years ago, new research finds. Scientists found that the genes that cause lighter skin, hair and eyes ...

A Black mom didn't hold back on teaching people about genetics after she received a series of critical and hateful comments on TikTok. While Neufville herself has brown eyes, she showed photos of her ...

A 2008 study was the first official research noting that a single genetic mutation from less than 10,000 years ago kicked off blue eyes. Fifteen years later and we're still enamored with the concept ...

Alex McCurry says she has faced prejudice online and in person over her youngest daughter's appearance Sara Belcher is a digital news writer/editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024 ...

You don’t have to travel to the West to find blonde-haired, blue-eyed people; one African tribe has had them for centuries. Africans are one of the most genetically diverse groups of people in the ...