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[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Very interesting, thought brown would've been bigger.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The center eye of the grapic not being brown is kinda ironic. Not gunna lie.

The stats are there!!!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago

Would be cooler to overlay a copy of the chart onto they eye in hue mode.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

The centre being all black would have added a nice touch

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

red/violet

I want to see a photo!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

That's wild

[–] SuperCub 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Maybe I'm an idiot, but I shouldn't the colors for amber and hazel be reversed?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I got the green eyes. Didn't know it was so rare.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Its gonna be heavily dependent on location. Green eyes in Ireland.. Way more common than say in Thailand

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

You're also just rare

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Heterochromia gang rise up, we are the 1%

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

You got that mixed up. The 1% are typically the ones that need rising against.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This chart could have really used some pictures of eyes of each colour...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Silver-cyan here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

No black? I thought half of the world's population has black eyes

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

That's just dark brown.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I did not know naturally occuring red eyes existed.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

oh. I guess I knew about that.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Punitt squares, haven't missed those.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

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.

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