White people are Mutants! I can hardly wait until Professor X recruits me.

The skin color of Europeans may have turned white after their ancestors migrated from Africa because of a single mutation among the 3 billion genetic "letters" that make up the human genome, scientists reported Thursday.

The mutation explains part of the lingering mystery of how human skin colors evolved during the last 50,000 years as modern humans migrated across the world after leaving Africa, according to research published today in the journal Science.

I wonder if the other aspects of this mutation was the desire for world domination, a lack of rhythm, and more potential earning power.

I love this quote. "By default, we are all dark-skinned," said Kenneth K. Kidd of Yale's genetics department.

That really puts us in our place doesn't it? Maybe all of those years of repressing dark skinned people was just an attempt for us to try and feel superior. Maybe Napolean Bonaparte did not try and take over the world because he was short, but rather because he was so damn white!

Now see this is why I love science!