Are your eyes brown or not-brown?

[pjthompson]

Not only fascinating, but fricking fascinating:



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22934464/wid/11915773?GT1=10815

Comments

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but the ending was a little odd. I kept searching for the rest of the article:

"The question really is, 'Why did we go from having nobody on Earth with blue eyes 10,000 years ago to having 20 or 40 percent of Europeans having blue eyes now?" Hawks said. "This gene does something good for people. It makes them have more kids."

[purdypiedad.livejournal.com]

Initially, I was doing the same thing. It makes them have more kids? Whahuh??? Then it dawned on me. I think it was a joke. Blue eyes are considered sexy, so people with blue eyes have more sex. Of course, I'd imagine that the first person with that mutation was probably considered a freak.

At least, I hope it was a joke. If not, an otherwise very scientific article just turned the corner into insanity.

[pjthompson]

This makes as much sense as anything--when it was a unique feature. Humans do like their novelty.

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

my thoughts exactly!

[pjthompson]

It could be as purdypiedad says: it makes them more sexay...

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

or something heavy fell on the writer before the article was finished.

[ogre-san.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure why they're so excited about it anyway. Go back far enough and we all have a common ancestor.

And just for the record: I'm a blue-eyed devil myself, but that "more sex" thing? A load of malarky.

[pjthompson]

Darn, Richard. Another fantasy of those of us with brown eyes shot all to hell... ;-)

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Verrry interesting.

[(Anonymous)]

Yup. Science iz cool.

[pjthompson]

I think so, too.

[mrngglry98.livejournal.com]

I'd like to know what the percentage of blue-eyed people is in the world (not just Europe). I'm blue eyed, and so's my baby...and my husband. We're all mutants! Though wait...if we all have a common ancestor, does this mean I'm related to my husband!?

[pjthompson]

I think if you figure in the populations of China and India, the bulk of the people living in the world probably have dark eyes, but I don't know the percentages. It would be fascinating to find out.

We're all mutants!

But only in the nicest possible way. :-)

Though wait...if we all have a common ancestor, does this mean I'm related to my husband!?

Like someone else said, go back far enough and we're all "cousins."

[mrngglry98.livejournal.com]

I did find after some Googling that 1 in 6 people in the U.S. has blue eyes and that it's decreasing more and more with each generation. So I bet that European estimates are probably the highest in the world. So my kid and I are rare mutants. ;)

[pjthompson]

I remember reading somewhere that the brown eyed genes are dominant.