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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: HungarianGypsy
The real fun is how often people ask if my child have different fathers even though three look just like their dad and two look like me...

My eyes are brown, my wife's are hazel. I am half Norwegian, and half mixture of many others. My wife is a mixture of others, mostly from England, and Scotland.

Once while my mother in law was visiting and our 7 children were around the breakfast table, she asked me, "Your older kids all have hazel or blue eyes, your youngest are all brown eyes, why is that?." I said, "we got a new milk man".

She about fell over.

81 posted on 10/23/2006 9:34:22 AM PDT by Dan(9698)
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To: Pharmboy
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.

The smart cheating wife would therefore only cheat with blue-eyed philanderers....

What a dismally stupid article.

82 posted on 10/23/2006 9:35:12 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: Toddsterpatriot

The whole family has blue eyes and green eyes except the one that had yellow eyes. Most are blond, too, at least in childhood. I married a green-eyed redhead, which was treated as a radical decision by several, but they didn't like to talk about the yellow eyed one either.


83 posted on 10/23/2006 9:35:28 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: RightWhale

In seriousness, actual yellow iris is a near complete lack of pigment, so only the lipofuscin (a fat-like substance) is showing.

People with green eyes have this, but also have melanin.

To greatly over-simplify, a type of iris albinos.


84 posted on 10/23/2006 9:35:31 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
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To: RightWhale

" green-eyed redhead"

She's a witch. Probably left-handed, too.


85 posted on 10/23/2006 9:37:12 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
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To: utahagen
"What this article doesn't mention is that sometimes mutations occur. A blue-eyed person may -- rare, but it does happen -- carry a gene for brown eyes that was supposed to be dominant but, because of a mutation, flipped and was trumped by the blue-eyed gene. In this case, a blue-eyed person would carry a gene for brown eyes that may show up when he has a child. Thus, a brown-eyed person may have blue-eyed parents if one (or both, theoretically) of the parents were supposed to have brown eyes.

My mother's eyes, hazel, Father's blue.

My wife's, green, my In-laws, green, blue.

Her two sister's, blue

My children, hazel, blue.

86 posted on 10/23/2006 9:37:26 AM PDT by #1CTYankee (That's right, I have no proof. So what of it??)
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To: RightWhale
Ever seen yellow eyes? Not brown or green, just really yellow.

I have. A mom of one of my Sunday school kids. Blonde hair, yellow eyes ... very pretty.

87 posted on 10/23/2006 9:38:58 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: MeanWestTexan

That's interesting. Seems like some albinos have red eyes. There's another iris color that is very attractive, which is the very light blue some Russian women have.


88 posted on 10/23/2006 9:39:12 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: Grannyx4

This is kind of your area...You have to have double blue parents, and a spouse with double blue parents, to get 100% blue-eyed kids, right?


89 posted on 10/23/2006 9:39:27 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs (You can do that, and be a whack-job pedophile on meth.)
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To: Pharmboy

nnn0jeh blue eyes
kalee brown eyes



2 kiddos
blue eyed daughter cailleach
brown eyed son trjeffersonian

The family that freeps together stays together. ;)


90 posted on 10/23/2006 9:40:00 AM PDT by kalee
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To: MeanWestTexan

Yes, except right-handed.


91 posted on 10/23/2006 9:40:38 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: Larry Lucido
In order:

Brown-eyed, get it at the grocery store, I'm the pool boy (I blow up the kiddie pools @ my house).

92 posted on 10/23/2006 9:41:13 AM PDT by Bosco (Remember how you felt on September 11?)
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To: r9etb

Yes, the relative with yellow eyes is also blond.


93 posted on 10/23/2006 9:41:33 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: Pharmboy
Brown eyes rule


94 posted on 10/23/2006 9:42:09 AM PDT by Nascar Dad (Support the troops!)
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To: LongElegantLegs

"You have to have double blue parents, and a spouse with double blue parents, to get 100% blue-eyed kids, right?"

No, brown-eyed parents with brown-eyed grandparents can have 100% blue-eyed kids --- blue being recessive.

Note, this is POSSIBLE. Just not likely:

Bb + Bb =

BB
Bb
bB
bb

1/4 chance of blue eyes.


95 posted on 10/23/2006 9:42:11 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
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To: Pharmboy

My Dad has dark brown eyes, my Mom has blue. I have green and my sister has dark brown. And yes, the Mailman was thoroughly interrogated! ;)


96 posted on 10/23/2006 9:42:11 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: arizonarachel
I can't wait to see what our future children have!

Well then, quit surfing the web, go find that new husband of yours, and make his day!

97 posted on 10/23/2006 9:42:14 AM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: utahagen

I have a daughter who is brown eyed the rest are blue eyed...my middle brother is brown eyed my youngest is hazel and my nephews(mid brother) are both blue eyed....genetics doesn't always fit the expected patterns!


98 posted on 10/23/2006 9:47:56 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Save the Republic! Mess with the polling firms' heads!)
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To: boxerblues

That ratio of 25:75 blue eyes:brown eyes in a family worked in my Dad's case. His three sisters all had brown eyes, he as the only boy had blue eyes.


99 posted on 10/23/2006 9:49:24 AM PDT by Ciexyz (Satisfied owner of a 2007 Toyota Corolla. (110 miles on a quarter tank of gas is great mileage.))
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To: Nascar Dad

S America? Venezuela?


100 posted on 10/23/2006 9:50:15 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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