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Blue-eyed men prefer blue-eyed women: researchers
Reuters ^ | 10-23-06 | Anon

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blueeyes; fidelity; genes; helixmakemineadouble; hereyes; matechoice; mutation
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To: Bosco

Me 2...


101 posted on 10/23/2006 9:51:20 AM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase
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To: Hildy

*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... =^)


102 posted on 10/23/2006 9:51:46 AM PDT by erikm88
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To: Pharmboy
Interesting, eh?

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.

103 posted on 10/23/2006 9:52:51 AM PDT by aculeus
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To: Oberon

Hey now! I'm stuck here at work!! That sort of thing is frowned upon here.


104 posted on 10/23/2006 9:53:17 AM PDT by arizonarachel (Lord, Please let me keep this miracle!)
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To: Paloma_55

HAHAHAHAHAH your post is hysterical.


105 posted on 10/23/2006 9:53:53 AM PDT by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: Pharmboy

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.


106 posted on 10/23/2006 9:54:38 AM PDT by dhuffman@awod.com (The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
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To: Pharmboy

BTTT


107 posted on 10/23/2006 9:57:24 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: RightWhale

A girl at my high school had tan eyes... light tan. Freaked me out.


108 posted on 10/23/2006 9:57:46 AM PDT by ValerieUSA
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To: arizonarachel
Hey now! I'm stuck here at work!! That sort of thing is frowned upon here.

Aha...you've just identified yet another benefit of working from home. I knew there were some I hadn't yet thought of!

109 posted on 10/23/2006 9:58:06 AM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: geopyg
lmao! Those darn Laplanders spreading their genetic impurity. Don't they look like Siberians?
110 posted on 10/23/2006 9:59:47 AM PDT by miliantnutcase ("If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it." -ichabod1)
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To: ValerieUSA

That is unusual. Another possible color is gray, hardly seen outside Western novels.


111 posted on 10/23/2006 10:01:38 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: Pharmboy
This is potentially harmful B.S.

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 . . .

112 posted on 10/23/2006 10:02:01 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: Hildy

Why do you think so many blue-eyed men prefer blue-eyed women? Easy to remember it. 8)


113 posted on 10/23/2006 10:04:46 AM PDT by LibertarianInExile (When personal character isn't relevant to voters or party leaders, Foley happens.)
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To: Pharmboy; blam

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


114 posted on 10/23/2006 10:05:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Dhimmicrati delenda est! https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: LibertarianInExile

My blue eyed husband married a brown eyed blonde. We have 2 blue eyed kids and one with brown eyes.


115 posted on 10/23/2006 10:08:37 AM PDT by surrey
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To: Pharmboy

What about all of us with green eyes?


116 posted on 10/23/2006 10:08:42 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: RightWhale

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.


117 posted on 10/23/2006 10:09:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Dhimmicrati delenda est! https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: pissant

LMAO, CGEB was a man!


118 posted on 10/23/2006 10:10:43 AM PDT by Toby06 (Diesel smoke makes me horny.)
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To: Lazamataz
"My eyes are plaid, and strobe with red, swirling, flashing lights. What does that say about me?"

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119 posted on 10/23/2006 10:22:09 AM PDT by LibertarianInExile (When personal character isn't relevant to voters or party leaders, Foley happens.)
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To: Toby06; Lazamataz; Blueflag; joshhiggins; ArrogantBustard; Larry Lucido; July 4th; linda_22003; ...

I've only seen one pic of CGEB, and he/she looked pretty hot to me. LOL.


120 posted on 10/23/2006 10:27:04 AM PDT by pissant
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