Comments on: Where'd Ya Get Those Baby Blues?

Geneticists Trace Blue-Eye Gene To Mutation From One Individual

[lheureblue]

How can you explain one blue eye and one brown eye, like my 2 cousins? How could one gene be responsible? Did they get half?

[fishinfool43]

PLEASE... step away from the crack pipe!!!!

[michellem99-2009]

I have brown eyes. I have never seen my parents eyes..Blue is my fave color..The eyes are what color they are.

[drew30319-2009]

What scientists don''t know is if having blue eyes was some kind of evolutionary advantage %u2026
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I think it''s easier to identify when somebody with light-colored eyes has dilated pupils. And I''ve always understood dilated pupils to indicate a person''s level of physiological attraction or interest.

So... if you could more easily see that a blue-eyed person is interested in you I would guess that it may give that blue-eyed trait an advantage in reproducing itself.

Just a guess but it makes sense to me!

Drew Crecente
Jennifer Ann''s Group
www.JenniferAnn.org

[staycalm]

Just because all blue-eyed people are descended from the same ancestor doesn''t mean that all people descended from that one ancestor will have blue eyes. Some will have brown, grey or green depending on the eye color of those who married into their family tree.

[amazedd]

Good research, wrong reasoning. Lab-mice aren''t expected to think, anyway.

[baye13]

I have brown eyes. My Father has blue so I guess I am also related to that one blue eyes person because I am related to my father genetically(sp?) Stupid study if you ask me.

I also believe we ALL decended from the first people in Africa. Not the Biblical story.

[erasmus6]

"Of course blue eyes were an evolutionary advantage. They got you laid more than the other guy ;)" posted by cbscrash07

Well I guess that is just to make up for the fact that blue eyed people are less intelligent than brown eyed people.:)

[kissamaarse]

What about green? Are they considered the same as blue? What about hazel? My eyes are very green in the center, with a brown ring around he green.

[amyroy1]

Ok, this article is just silly. I don''t know one family without at least one blue-eyed person in it. I have blue eyes, but my three siblings have brown, for instance. So my three brown-eyed siblings would also be descended from this one person. Maybe some countries are comprised of brown-eyed people only, but America certainly isn''t. If you are a direct descendant of a blue-eyed person, then you are related to that one special person, whether your eye color is brown, green or bloodshot. It''s got to be a huge percentage of America''s population.

[Syndicate]

Of course blue eyes were an evolutionary advantage. They got you laid more than the other guy ;)

[tucano2]

Guess that means we''re mutants decended from interbreeding between humanoids and "Aliens".

[hypnotoad72]

Was it from Adam or Steve?

Or, more amusingly, were Cain and Abel blue-eyed? Or since it was Adam and Eve, their 2 boys, and utter silence for a while, was it Cain or Abel that caused the mutation when they got some hot inbreeding action with Eve?

Genesis was the only chapter that never made sense... how could it, though the concept of "original sin" makes sense... of course, the chapter also suggests we''re all inbred, but nothing''s perfect...