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A sampling of the enormous variation in human eye color

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[Perdogg]

what about heterochromia?

[chuck_the_tv_out]

"accounts for about 74 percent of the total variation"

About 74%! Reminds me of when Darwin wrote that the Wealden deposits were 306,662,400 years old. (On the origin of species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life, 1st edition)

It's either 74%, or it's not 74%. It might be "about 75%", but "about 74%" is pure tardedness.

[EyeGuy]

Yes as the article staes, most people are not aware of the fact that iris pigmentation is based completely on the AMOUNT of iris pigment, not its inherent coloration.

Swedes for example simply have less iris pigment for example than Africans.

The presence of pigment throughout the eye, does have some beneficial, protective effects for other ocular pathology, such as age-related macular degneration (ARMD).

[ElayneJ]

for later

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Both parents of this kid are black, BTW.

[srmorton]

Eye color is an example of what biologists call “continuous variation” - a trait that is obviously influenced by multiple genes. I always remind my students that this is the case even while I am using eye color as an example of a simple Mendelian trait. It is easy for them to relate to since most people have eyes that are some shade of brown or blue.

[Pharmboy]

Mine are hazel, as in the lower left in your photograph. What was particularly interesting to me was that for the first 45 years of my life my eyes were light brown with a few green flecks. After 45, they turned hazel...I even changed the eye color answer on my driver's license. My dad had light blue eyes, my mom brown, and my sister has blue.

And our genes are quite mixed up: Celtic, Romanian, Jewish and Ukrainian.

[svcw]

My eyes get greener as I get older. What’s the deal with that.
My grandson eyes were blue blue blue until he turned fourish and changed to dark brown - freaky really.

[Red_Devil 232]

[Crazieman]

Mine are green with a ring of yellow.

I had a girlfriend with solid gray eyes. I loved them, they were so unusual and unique.

[brytlea]

I always knew it had to be more complex than they said (I have hazel eyes). But I admit, I prefer the old Mendelian genetics, because I understood it, and this stuff is wayyyyyyy complicated!

[Gaffer]

Somehow, somewhere I think there’s a mom, maybe from Maury’s show, just itching to use this to ‘splain’ to the [maybe] baby daddy he’s the one.

[Yaelle]

Bump for later read

[School of Rational Thought]

As a kid my eyes were blue like top center but are not green likd middle left.

When in my twenties my eyes were stil blue, but when I drank they went very green.

[trisham]

I'm #3. My father was #9 (German and Irish), and my mother #4 or #5 (German and Irish). My husband is #2 (Swedish, Scottish and Irish)

[Allegra]

My parents and siblings all have brilliant, beautiful blue eyes.

Mine are pea-green. Iraqis have called me "eyuni bazuna." (Eyes of a cat.)

Go figure.

[G8 Diplomat]

I once saw a picture of a Mongoloid girl with blond hair and brown eyes. Very unusual. I also saw a pic of a Pakistani kid with blue eyes and blond streaks in his dark hair. Although it's not *too* unusual for Pakis, Afghans, and Persians to have lighter hair and eyes; they are Indo-Europeans like you and me after all. You can even find Arabs with blue or green eyes, but it's rarer.

There are some pretty cool animals with blue eyes.

Zebra (copy & paste URL to see image at full size to better see the eyes):



Snake: (There was a really good pic w/a close-up of the eyes but I can't seem to find it)



Koala:

[Shadowstrike]

My eyes are green as grass.
lol

[Daffynition]