Who's black?
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.
Blue eyes are also very expressive --- either cold or friendly --- because the pupil is more easily seen against the light iris.
I prefer blue eyes in people with whom I play poker.
This does not always hold true.
Mom & Dad both blue eyes
5 kids 3 girls all had green eyes, 2 boy both with blues eyes.
Ever seen yellow eyes? Not brown or green, just really yellow.
Your neighbor seems like a helpful sort.
He's been around fixing the sink in the bedroom, too, huh?
:)
Actually my OBGYN told me that two blue eyed parents have about 75% chance of having a child with blue eyes, it is not certain and science is not certain sometimes and that she has seen a child come out with different eye color than mom and dad's blue eyes and the child WAS the father's.
I have blue/gray eyes and my DH has blue eyes and we did in fact have a son with blue eyes just like his dads, but we both knew it was possible for our son to come out with different colored eyes. But our son looks just like his dad from eyes, nose, mouth, ears, body shape, it is almost like I gave birth to my DH, lol!
Whoa...that's a blast from the past.
Awwwww
Well, it is obvioous MJ's children are not his!
Only in the dialysis ward.
Have you checked the mailman's haircolor and complexion?
sorry, but Suri Cruise looks just like Tom!
Yellow in the iris?
Eye color is more complex than that. Blue-eyed parents occasionally do have brown-eyed children. Also, there's a separate gene for central brown color, and eye color can change as you age too.
Is the mailman blue eyed? The milkman? The pool boy?
I wonder how many men even KNOW the color of their wives eyes.
I wonder how many men even KNOW the color of their wives eyes.
In college I used to have really red eyes many Saturday mornings. Funny thing is that they'd turn back to brown sometime about mid day.
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