Very interesting, thought brown would've been bigger.
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The center eye of the grapic not being brown is kinda ironic. Not gunna lie.
The stats are there!!!
Would be cooler to overlay a copy of the chart onto they eye in hue mode.
The centre being all black would have added a nice touch
red/violet
I want to see a photo!
Weird. Never thought it to be real. In Warhammer 40k, only a populace of a specific planet has those purple eyes. Kinda neat to know that this might have been a super-specific random event (first human settlers of that planet having purple eyes).
I imagine it's a recessive trait, so even if all the first settlers had it, most people a few generations down would not have it, only if there was an external force driving evolution, meaning people with other eye colours couldn't reproduce as well.
That's wild
Maybe I'm an idiot, but I shouldn't the colors for amber and hazel be reversed?
I got the green eyes. Didn't know it was so rare.
Its gonna be heavily dependent on location. Green eyes in Ireland.. Way more common than say in Thailand
Wow, that's crazy. I'm Australian (Australian Dad & Kiwi Mum) but I actually have Irish in my heritage. I am also the only one in the family to have red hair which was apparently a massive coincidence only possible because of DNA that by chance was on both my Mum's side and my Dad's side (I don't know the fine details). Until I was 13-14, my eyes used to change colour between Green and Blue depending on the time of year. Now I'm approaching 23 and my eyes have consistently been green since around 14.
You're also just rare
Heterochromia gang rise up, we are the 1%
You got that mixed up. The 1% are typically the ones that need rising against.
This chart could have really used some pictures of eyes of each colour...
Silver-cyan here
No black? I thought half of the world's population has black eyes
That's just dark brown.
Can you post a pic of someone with black eyes? That sounds wild, and I'm curious what its like in your world where half of people just have pupils and no iris.
I did not know naturally occuring red eyes existed.
Albinos
oh. I guess I knew about that.
Fun fact: the brown-eyed percentage (70-79%) seems to approximately fit the following genetics rule:
+ A a
A AA Aa
a Aa aa
AA = 25%
aa = 25%
Aa = 50%
50% of Aa + 25% of either aa or AA = 75% probability
That is accurate assuming that eye color is defined by only 2 genes, but in actuality it's more, possibly as many as 50 different genes.
Punitt squares, haven't missed those.
Mutant Genes:
Red hair and brown eyes is unusual. Red hair is a recessive trait but brown eyes tend to be dominate. Hair color and eye color are one the same gene, MC1R. So if you have a dominate hair color you tend to have a dominate eye color, brown hair and brown eyes for example. People who have red hair and brown eyes have a mutated gene so the recessive red hair is attached to the dominate brown eyes.
The same concept goes the other way, like people with green eyes and brown hair.
Lots of people in my family have red hair/brown eyes because of this. It doesn’t skip around like it does in some families.
I have lightish brown hair, my eyes used to be brown but are now hazel brown, and I have a reddish brown beard. My shits all over the place.