Posted on 01/30/2008 2:10:37 PM PST by decimon
Hazel eyes like mine are about what you say, instead of having the code for blue eyes or green being homogenous across the iris you get a hodgepodge of green coded iris cells and brown coded iris cells equally interspersed across the whole iris in varying degrees, sometimes hazel eyes appear close to blue or green while others appear close to brown or amber. In many people with Hazel eyes you get different shades and different colors. My eyes for instance are green and blue with a gray backwash and one brown/black spot. There isnt any real genetic study to explain hazel eyes out there.
The girl who plays Lana Lang on “Smallville” is supposed to be half Chinese and half Dutch, yet her eyes are dark, sort of olive green. If I remember my old biology both of her parents would have to have some light eyed genes. I am not certain tho. Is it possible for a full blooded Chinese to have a green eyed child?
I always like the odds.
Sorry bout the typo. Sometimes I type faster than I think.
Obviously a McCain voter!
Yeah, I always put down brown for my eye color but there are actually several colors depending on the lighting.
bump
Ahem.
When paternity is contested in divorce court, the husband is proven to not be the biological father about 30% of the time.
Just saying.
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That’s kinda my point.
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Recessive gene for you
Unless the hospital swapped babies!
Green is basically a variation of blue eyes. It is very possible for two blue-eyed parents to have a green-eyed child.
The spoise & I both have brown eyes. All our 9 kids have brown eyes. One of our 19 grandkids has blue eyes.
My daughters married blue-eyed guys, but out of their 8 (combined) kids, only one has blue eyes.
Our family’s the opposite: I have blue eyes (but my parents both have green) and hubby has brown.
Our oldest has brown eyes (strange color, though...almost orange), the youngest has my blue.
50-50 chance, and that’s exactly what we got.
Regards,
Green is someother color issue; it’s a color in the fat or something -— so green eyes pop up rather unexpectedly.
That said, I have never been one to chase “ethnic” types — ironic given that I ended up marrying an Army nurse who was 100% born-on-the-reservation Native American -— but the girl from Smallville is the prettiest girl I have ever seen.
the hair and mustache are truly bizarre, forget about the eyes
Green is the color of the Pods. Just sayin'.
If you had brown eyes with two blue-eyed parents, that would mean something was amiss.
Blue-eyed Blonde-hair ping!!!
Interesting that your children were also slow in getting their final eye colors....I was convinced that my oldest (now 12 years old) was going to have green eyes, but at about 3 1/2 they suddenly changed to a strange brown that is almost orange. When I say “suddenly,” I mean within DAYS. It was weird.
Regards,
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