Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor

University of Copenhagen ^ | January 30, 2008 | Unknown

[wildbill]

I have eyes that are described as hazel. Somethimes they are gray, sometimes green, and sometimes blue.

Any info on this changing of color would be appreciated. (I’m too lazy to look it up)

[Ditter]

Maybe my eyes were brown when I was younger as well, people told me they were brown. When I was about 35 I was looking at my eyes very closely in a mirror and I said “guess what? my eyes are green with brown centers”. I never thought that they might have changed.

[decimon]

I have eyes that are described as hazel. Somethimes they are gray, sometimes green, and sometimes blue.

Any info on this changing of color would be appreciated. (I’m too lazy to look it up)

I think that's just a matter of lighting and how deep set your eyes are.

[wildbill]

Could it be the clothes I wear giving off some kind of reflection?

I notice the colors change more with the color of my clothes but I didn’t want to say that our front lest someone call me crazy.

[decimon]

Could it be the clothes I wear giving off some kind of reflection?

I guess. That could go along with the lighting.

I was thinking more of degrees of sunlight, fluorescent lighting versus incandescent lighting...stuff like that.

[aft_lizard]

Well the link at the end is what I have found that best describes, to what degree it can,on what I have learned on eye colors and there coding. While semantically you are arguing the density of melanin, I am trying to say that you are specifically coded for your eye color, be it blue, green or polka dotted. Not saying that the color blue or the color green is created, but that your genes are saying produce x and x amount of melanin, which determines the color of your eyes.(BTW blood vessels behind the eyes are red, which is why albinos have red eyes because they have no melanin, while blue eyes do have some melanin but like the sky you only see blue)

http://www.athro.com/evo/gen/geframe.html

[mamelukesabre]

Oxygenated blood is red. De-oxygenated blood is blue. In earth’s atmosphere, you will never see de-oxygenated blood outside the body. As soon as blood is in contact with air, it oxygenates.

[Ciexyz]

Where do gray eyes fall in this spectrum? Lots of Russians and Slavs have gray eyes.

[fanfan]

Um, clear?

[fanfan]

That’s the funniest thing I have ever read.

Damn Canadians.

Sure, go ahead and laugh.
I’m afraid to check my mail today.

;-)

[JimSEA]

When we go to Thailand in a couple of days, We are going to try a visit to Cave Lodge and Ban Rai Rock Shelter. This seems to go from recent times "Iron Age" back to the time period of Sundaland. I figures I should try befor I get too crippled up.

[blam]

Looks interesting. Good luck and stay out of trouble over there.

[Marysecretary]

OK, my siblings and I are all blue eyed. WHO is our common ancestor? I’m claiming Adam...

[Marysecretary]

Uh, oh, my oldest grandson looks like Putin...

[Marysecretary]

My father had lovely cornflower blue eyes. We’re all blue eyed but not as bright and beautiful as his were.

[Marysecretary]

I’ve got my eye on you...

[Marysecretary]

My dad had blue eyes, mom’s were more hazel. We’re all blue eyed blonds.

[Marysecretary]

Yes they did! Raping and pillaging their way around France, Ireland, America...

[Marysecretary]

I dunno. Do you bark and eat your food out of a dish on the kitchen floor???

[GoLightly]

Yes they did! Raping and pillaging their way around France, Ireland, America...

Germany, England, Scotland, Iberia, Northern Africa, Rome, Sicily, Naples, Russia, Ukraine, Byzantium...