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.
"Ever seen yellow eyes? Not brown or green, just really yellow."
Yup, well more like maize colored - on a rather attractive girl from India I met in college.
Ping.
Me: gray eyes
Dad: Hazel eyes
Mom: Green eyes
Brother: Dark Blue eyes
Interesting, I didn't know that. My mother, myself, and my sister's youngest boy all have blue-gray eyes with a yellow ring around the pupil. I never realized that the famous familial ring was actually a lack of pigment!
As I've gotten older mine has gone from a defined ring to more of a bunch of splotches but the yellow color remains.
LQ
My brothers eyes may be more hazel, but they are certainly not blue. The thing is that he looks almost exactly like my dad except for the eye color. He also looks like me, except for the I'm the feminine version. My dad, my brother, and I all have the same shaped face, and we are all tall and small framed.
My other brother always looked like he was adopted. He was red-headed and freckled, and he had very large bones. He was just plain tall and husky. (He died of skin cancer a few years ago, that's why I'm using past tense.)
Red hair, and skin light enough to freckle, are both carried on recessive genes. You and your spouse could have many generations of ancestors where this trait did NOT manifest, but the ancestors were carriers; and then when the two of you got together..
Hey, it's the luck of the draw.
"Mom & Dad both blue eyes
5 kids 3 girls all had green eyes, 2 boy both with blues eyes."
Not just mutations, but sometimes odd polygenic combinations. I have blue eyes and two blue eyed parents. My wife has deep brown eyes, a brown eyed mother, and a blue eyed father. Our three children? Brown, Dark Brown, Green. How odd is that? (and no, there is no question of paternity...green baby looks just like his daddy in every other respect). According to most eye color prediction charts, we had about a 1-in-10 possibility of ending up with a green eyed baby, and we hit those odds with our third child. We actually had about a 1-in-4 shot of having a blue eyed child, so we probably would have eventually had one if we'd kept at it, but we decided to call it quits at three.
I think Laz has had both!
Check your yahoo mail when you get a chance. Sending you something within the next 5 minutes.
This is baloney. My sister has blue eyes and so does her husband. But her son has brown eyes and it's because one of her parents (my dad) had brown eyes. It's perfectly natural. This study is full of junk science.
Not sure what his/her story was. Somebocy sent me a pic once upon a time, and it didn't look like a feller, that's for sure. But ArrogantBustard says it wasn't CGEB anyway.
Zeta Jones had to settle for that hollywood wuss after I rejected her.
I recall seeing a picture of an attractive blonde, supposedly female, but after he/she was banned, I wondered if it was a female impersonator.
I don't think he/she is banned. You can still access the profile page.
Yes! The profile is still there. The reason I remembered him/her was because he/she always used multi-colored font, and I wondered how that was done.
"Otherwise, a kid with brown eyes could just be a recessive trait, not proof of infidelity?"
No, because blue is the recessive trait, not brown.
Blues are always "bb."
If you are a Bb, you're brown (or Hazel).
"My parents both have blue eyes, but one of my brothers doesn't. That's because we have ancestors that also have brown eyes."
Only way for that to happen is: (1) freak mutation or (2) infidelity.
Brown is dominant. Period.
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