I rest my case.
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.
Sounds like the show "King of the Hill" where Dale Gribble doesn't realize that his "son" Joseph is the product of his wife's 14 year long affair.
I have blue eyes and have been married twice. The first time to a woman with the most captivating jade green eyes and this time to a woman with deep brown(of course we are both past child rearing age). I guess I am just weird.
Used to be a host of them around here.
I have to confess...
I stole that scenario from an old "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in Skit".
They had Dan Rowan and his wife (both brown haired, fair skinned) with 5 red-hair, freckled, glasses wearing kids.
The neighbor, Dick Martin, had red hair, freckles, and glasses. He would always drop by and say "Fine Lookin Family Fred!" as he began the skit.
I rest my case.
I know that she has TWO of them...no doubt about that.
that goes for her eyes too!
You called? :)
Yes! When I was working (dental hygienist) I had a patient with yellow eyes. She was wearing a jumpsuit the same color. It's been 28 years and I still remember it.
Isn't that called jaundice?
Nothing new in front of the sun ...
Green
Hey! I'm a Classless Green eyed Blond
Does balding and a little gray at the temples and chin bother you?
I have blue eyes and my husband has beautiful green eyes. I can't wait to see what our future children have!
Someone better grt Jesse and his rent-a-mob on the horn!
What does that say about me?
My dad had light blue eyes and my mom brown. My syster has my dad's eye color, and I was born with brown. They turned hazel when I was about 45.
And she's classy, but not blond.
If you stare into the sun, you can see the Host.
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