Posted on 02/25/2007 4:34:29 PM PST by blam
I could have told them for $5.
My mom has brown, my dad had gray. One sister has gray, one has brown and I have deep blue go figure.
Michael Behe said there are no genes for eyes.
Their structure is controlled by mousetraps.
My husband's eyes are normally brown. Several time when he has gotten ill (auto immune) they turn a lovely green.
But I'm relieved when they return to brown. :-)
I have brown eyes. My husband has brown eyes. All our kids have brown eyes. But we both have grandparents who had blue eyes.
My daughter married a green-eyed guy, and their kids have blue eyes.
My son married a green-eyed girl, and their kids have hazel eyes.
My son married a brown-eyed gal, and their kids have eyes so dark they are BLACK.
same here...both my parents had blue eyes, I have a light green, hubby has brown..one son and one daughter have deep blue and one daughter has hazel. hhmmm. Now our new grand daughter has deep blue eyes, when the daughter that had her is the hazel and daddy is dark brown eyes.
I have brown ones. I have an interesting problem. I can't smell red-haired women. Is it that they are sneaky?
What I want to see is a study linking Rh negative blood with blue eye color. Those genes have to be related somehow. Negative blood is geographically peculiar it's not evenly distributed at all, not even across the West.
And where it IS concentrated, there one remarks blue eyes.
Ireland and Brittany are obvious. Less obvious is also a subset of the Berber tribes in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa. Certain of the Berbers are swarthy with blue eyes, a rather shocking combination. The other strange place is among certain Sephardic Jews of Spain and, of course, Israel (though which direction that population flow occurred is much open to question). Blue-eyed Sephardic Jews is a strange thing...the dark-and-light business again, like the Berbers.
Anyway, I would like to see whatever cross-references there are regarding negative blood and eye color. Intuitively, when I think about the negative-blooded people I have known, the correlation is very, very high.
The Berbers are related to the Sa'ami.
O and A blood types are distributed in about equal amounts across Europe. There is a higher % of O type blood concentrated in Wales though.
O and A are, yes, but Rh negative blood isn't.
Rh negative blood is essentially non-existent outside of Europe, a little slice of North Africa, a slice of Israel, and parts of the New World.
Within Europe, it's highest concentration is in the Basque country, with Ireland a close second and Wales and Brittany behind them. Interestingly, there is NOT much of a concentration in the intermediate lands, nor in surrounding Spain, France, Italy, Germany or further East. Not much in England or Scotland, but a lot in Ireland and Wales. (Essentially, this tells us that the trait arrived by boat, and gives a strong boost to the ancient Irish "Milesian" legend, which said that the Irish actually sailed from what is now Spain in a fleet commanded by a leader named Miletus. If that sailing were from the Basque country, it follows a straight line across the Bay of Biscay to Brittany, Wales and Ireland, bypassing everything else.
But then you've got that outcropping of negative blood among a certain Berber tribe in the Atlas Mountains (only), and it's practical non-existence elsewhere. Amongst the Jews is easier to fathom, given their pelerinations and intermarriage over the centuries. Still, it's a RECESSIVE trait, which gives pause.
Anyway, it's a queer thing.
Oppenheimer says that the DNA of the British is ancient, 85% of the Brit's DNA arrived as early as 12k years ago. Now, 9,000 year old, Cheddar Man's (found in the UK) DNA is U5 which is the dominant line of the Sa'ami.
Thank you. :-)
Go Tigers! (I'm from Toledo)
Not so odd. You got a recessive blue gene from one of your parents. Your recessive blue matched up with your husband's blue three times (against the odds, but not hugely so) to give blue-eyed children.
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