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.
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.
The smart cheating wife would therefore only cheat with blue-eyed philanderers....
What a dismally stupid article.
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.
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.
" green-eyed redhead"
She's a witch. Probably left-handed, too.
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.
I have. A mom of one of my Sunday school kids. Blonde hair, yellow eyes ... very pretty.
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.
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?
nnn0jeh blue eyes
kalee brown eyes
2 kiddos
blue eyed daughter cailleach
brown eyed son trjeffersonian
The family that freeps together stays together. ;)
Yes, except right-handed.
Brown-eyed, get it at the grocery store, I'm the pool boy (I blow up the kiddie pools @ my house).
Yes, the relative with yellow eyes is also blond.
"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.
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! ;)
Well then, quit surfing the web, go find that new husband of yours, and make his day!
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!
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.
S America? Venezuela?
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