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Eye Color Explained: Everything you know is wrong
Discover Magazine ^
| March 13, 2007
| Boonsri Dickinson
Posted on 05/31/2009 1:23:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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A sampling of the enormous variation in human eye color
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:23:08 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:24:23 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: SunkenCiv
what about heterochromia?
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:27:00 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Liz Cheney 2012)
To: SunkenCiv
"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.
To: SunkenCiv
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).
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:28:46 PM PDT
by
EyeGuy
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:29:33 PM PDT
by
ElayneJ
To: Perdogg
What are you, some kind of homochrome?
To: SunkenCiv
..."Green eyes probably represent the interaction of multiple variants within the OCA2 and in other genes, including perhaps the red-hair gene," Duffy says.
Hah! It's my red hair, my dad's blue eyes, and my mom's brown eyes.
Green eyes and red hair...how come only us wimmins have that? I've never seen a guy with red hair and green eyes....
:oþ
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:29:49 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Is a vegetatian permitted to eat animal crackers?)
To: Larry Lucido
yep, just like 99% of us.
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:32:16 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Liz Cheney 2012)
To: SunkenCiv
Both parents of this kid are black, BTW.
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:32:29 PM PDT
by
MyTwoCopperCoins
(I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
To: chuck_the_tv_out
It's either 74%, or it's not 74%. It might be "about 75%", but "about 74%" is pure tardedness.This post is pure childishness.
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:35:25 PM PDT
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: Monkey Face
Me.
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:35:32 PM PDT
by
Little Bill
(Just a Poor White Person , clinging to God, Guns, and the Constitution)
To: MyTwoCopperCoins
Wow! Striking. What a beautiful little boy!
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:37:39 PM PDT
by
To Hell With Poverty
(The War on Poverty is over. Poverty won. - Howie Carr)
To: SunkenCiv
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.
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:38:19 PM PDT
by
srmorton
(Chose life!)
To: SunkenCiv
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.
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:38:29 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Who ever thought we would long for the days of the Clinton administration...)
To: SunkenCiv
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.
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:38:45 PM PDT
by
svcw
(The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God ... is knowing you need it.)
To: Little Bill
Prove it! Show me a photo!! LOL!
Congratulations!!
You rock!
I have six red-haired siblings but they ALL have brown eyes. My hair is the darkest (dark auburn) and my eyes the lightest (hazel green.)
My son’s eyes are “honey” colored.
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:40:11 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Is a vegetatian permitted to eat animal crackers?)
To: MyTwoCopperCoins
Is Vanessa Williams his mom ?
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:42:08 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: chuck_the_tv_out
It might be "about 75%", but "about 74%" is pure tardedness. Details, details.
You're right. "About 74%" implies that it falls between 73.5 and 74.5%.
"About 75% would (to me) imply that the value is somewhere between 70 and 80%.
Or, using the law of the WAG, 75% would imply a value somewhere between 50 and 100%.
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:42:20 PM PDT
by
Ole Okie
(American)
To: svcw
Hi!
Haven’t seen you for a while!
All my sibs had blue-eyed first-born children except me. My son’s were “honey eyes.” However, after the first child, the eyes could vary, though never seeming to get out of being “blue” or “brown.”
Strange stuff, that.
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:42:42 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Is a vegetatian permitted to eat animal crackers?)
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