Posted on 10/23/2006 9:03:42 AM PDT by Pharmboy
Blue-eyed men prefer blue-eyed women, apparently because eye color can help reveal whether their partner has been faithful, researchers said on Monday.
"Before you request a paternity test, spend a few minutes looking at your child's eye color," Bruno Laeng and colleagues at the University of Tromso in Norway said in the study.
Under the laws of genetics, two parents with blue eyes will always have blue-eyed children, it said. So a blue-eyed man can know his blue-eyed wife or partner has cheated on him if their child has brown eyes.
"Blue-eyed men may have unconsciously learned to value a physical trait that can facilitate recognition of own kin," the scientists said in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
The scientists asked 88 students to rate the attractiveness of models based on pictures manipulated so that half of them had blue eyes and the other half had brown eyes. The blue-eyed men in the group showed a preference for blue-eyed women.
But brown-eyed men, who cannot find any clues about paternity from a child's eye color, had no preferences by eye color. Women showed no preference for brown- or blue-eyed men, irrespective of their own eye color.
A quarter of children born to two brown-eyed parents who have both brown and blue-eye genes among their ancestors will have blue eyes. The rest will be brown.
In a second study, 443 young adults of both sexes were asked about the eye color of their partners -- blue-eyed men were also the group with the highest proportion of partners with the same eye color.
Me 2...
*ahem*... my wife has beautiful blue eyes! I have brown eyes.... I think our children may have brown eyes.... I haven't done the Punnett Square to determine phenotype or genotype... mostly because I am not all that interested... =^)
Yes. Dominance and recessiveness works. I had a redheaded father and a brown-haired mother. I got the brown hair then I married a redhead. Two of four of our children had red hair. Conclusion: I carried the recessive redhair gene I got from dad; wife carried two recessive red-haired gene. Odds of children having red hair: 50-50.
I was told that classic Irish look: freckles, brown hair, blue eyes (all me as a kid) means you carry a red hair gene.
Hey now! I'm stuck here at work!! That sort of thing is frowned upon here.
HAHAHAHAHAH your post is hysterical.
Without going beyond post #1 on this thread I can say, 'Here comes the science!' To which I reply, 'two personal anecdotes do not data make.'
Good people should be armed where they will, with wits and guns.
BTTT
A girl at my high school had tan eyes... light tan. Freaked me out.
Aha...you've just identified yet another benefit of working from home. I knew there were some I hadn't yet thought of!
That is unusual. Another possible color is gray, hardly seen outside Western novels.
Blue eyed parents have about a 25 percent chance of having a brown-eyed baby.
Mix in variations like hazel and gray, and the numbers go way up.
Eye color is not a simple single-gene dominant/recessive trait.
Hope nobody decides to shoot their wife for cheating on this account . . .
Why do you think so many blue-eyed men prefer blue-eyed women? Easy to remember it. 8)
Thanks PB for the ping. However, I agree with this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1724344/posts?page=82#82
also this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1724344/posts?page=73#73
and would point out this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1724344/posts?page=74#74
My blue eyed husband married a brown eyed blonde. We have 2 blue eyed kids and one with brown eyes.
What about all of us with green eyes?
I've seen yellow irises, and the weird part was that the pupils were at the top, making the irises sort of crescent moon shaped. That was circa 1982.
LMAO, CGEB was a man!
Japanese Conceptual Artist: Number eight.
Barney: (belch)
Japanese Conceptual Artist: Number eight.
Barney: (belch)
Japanese Conceptual Artist: Number eight.
Barney: (belch)
Japanese Conceptual Artist: Number eight.
Barney: (belch)
Japanese Conceptual Artist: Number eight.
Barney: (belch)
I've only seen one pic of CGEB, and he/she looked pretty hot to me. LOL.
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