These people are basically real-life X-Men.
Evolution is an ongoing process and one of its most important building blocks is mutation. Every now and then, nature/genetics will create random mutations in people to see if it makes any additional difference to their survival.
Unlike X-Men, these changes are usually pretty subtle in real life. Instead of telekinesis or laser eyes, you may be born with extra fingers or webbed toes.
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His condition is most likely coloboma, a hole in the structures of the eye which usually affects just the iris. It is a rare genetic condition that happens to less than one child for every 10,000 being born.
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This boy has Waardenburg Syndrome
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Albinism can give a person who has it purple blue coloured eyes
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A redhead with heterochromia
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A congenital, enormous mole
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A mother passes on a white patch of hair. Called ‘Poliosis’.
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Elf ears are not just mythical traits. They are real! Elf ears are also known as “Darwin’s tubercule”, a congenital condition wherein the rim of the auricle is thickened.
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Perfect belly button swirl
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This uvula split in two
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Same and also passed from mother to child
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Coloboma on both of his eyes
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Genu recurvatum is a deformity in the knee joint, so that the knee bends backwards.
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An ear with a preauricular pit
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Mirror hands - eight fingers
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So flexible... grabbing backwards
