What are some recent mutations in humans that most people don't realize? Blue eyes are a very

recent development, evolution-wise at least. The mutation didn't appear until about 10,000 years ago.

The only one I can think of is that people are now being born without wisdom teeth.

They don't serve a purpose other than an excuse for dentists to make more money.

I'm one of these. I always thought my rearmost molars were my wisdom teeth, so I went to my dentist

once and asked about having them removed before they started to hurt as opposed to after.

She looked at my x-rays and said, well, you were born without wisdom teeth. Congrats, you're fully

evolved. Lactose tolerance.

Humans didn't really drink milk past infancy. But when people started herding goats and cows,

they started drinking the milk. A lot of people couldn't handle it, but there were always

select people that could. So that explains why some people are hereditarily lactose intolerant and some aren't.

The gene is still totally random, but like other genes, it can become more prevalent through

surviving cheeseheads. Having four kidneys, I'm not sure if this is actually a thing,

but I've kept seeing mentions of it every now and then, and this article claims a whole 1% of the

British population

have them, although often with complications involved. If you open your hand with your palm up,

touch your pinky and your thumb together, and then bend your wrist upwards, some will see

an extra tendon or muscle, and some won't. From what I understand, it's something that we're

losing that our ancestors had probably millions of years ago that we no longer need. Stan Lee did a show on people

with real-life superhuman abilities. There's some mutations that most people don't realize. Some

examples of mutations like this include Dean Carnazas, who doesn't build up lactic acid in his muscles,

so he never experiences muscle pain. He has the record for longest distance ever run in one go,

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