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.
Yellow Iris --- check and see if the wife has been aboard the Enterprise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_(Star_Trek)
What a stupid title. It should be 'Blue Eyed woman prefer Blue eyed men.' Who cares what men want?
Good! I have seen yellow eyes only once and that was one of my direct ancestors.
only long-time FReepers will get your ClassyGreen-EyedBlonde joke ;-)
It means that you are a true disco guy of the 70s.
My mother and father were green eyed, red haired with freckles. I have (had) black hair and brown eyes..........
This article is complete speculation. They did a test on who considers what kind of women most attractive and then assumed the result was related to children.
Funny, but when I see an attractive woman, what the children might look like is not even in my head - since I have no intention of ever seeing them anyway.
Oh, sorry. I wasn't supposed to give that part away, was I?
Dunno ... but it tells me to quit eating those mushrooms that sprout up in my lawn ...
LOL! Sounds like you're married...
Were the pupils vertical slits?............ssssssssssss
The whites were white. The irises yellow.
Iris-ists!
I think eye color is polygenetic. Several genes that can either have a blue or brown component...green is a combination of the two.
I would check the mailman for obvious characteristics. On the other hand, if that child really is the son of Michael Jackson, it's a good thing Jackson got that nose fixed BEFORE he had kids! :-)
Eye color is something I notice. My husband doesn't notice eye color, he pays attention to noses and other things.; ) I don't think my dad or his sister paid any attention to eye color because when asked the eye color of their parents' they weren't sure. That amazed me.
"This article is complete speculation.'
I'm not so sure about that - but in Tromso, Norway they could probably only find a couple of non-blue eyed folks around, unless the Laplanders were in town for the Reindeer convention.
Eye color calculator:
http://museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCalc/eyecalculator.html
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