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[-] Podunk@lemmy.world 68 points 5 days ago

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

The stats are there!!!

[-] Opisek@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago

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

[-] xrun_detected@programming.dev 8 points 5 days ago

The centre being all black would have added a nice touch

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[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 48 points 5 days ago

I did not know naturally occuring red eyes existed.

[-] berryjam@lemmy.world 40 points 5 days ago
[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 27 points 5 days ago

oh. I guess I knew about that.

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 27 points 5 days ago

Some people may appear to have red or violet eyes since the lack of melanin allows underlying blood vessels to show.

https://www.visioncenter.org/conditions/albino-eyes/

[-] Manalith@midwest.social 6 points 5 days ago

The eyes in that one image look cool.

[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago

red/violet

I want to see a photo!

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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).

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 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.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 8 points 4 days ago

That's wild

[-] DreitonLullaby@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago

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

[-] Baaahb@feddit.nl 4 points 4 days ago

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

[-] DreitonLullaby@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day 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.

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

You're also just rare

[-] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 36 points 5 days ago

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

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 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.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Punitt squares, haven't missed those.

[-] SuperCub@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

[-] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 34 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] foofiepie@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

My wife has brown hair, brown eyes and an olive skin complexion. I’m your typical scandi with reddish-blonde hair, blue eyes, skin that burns like paper. Our child has brown eyes, red hair and olive skin that actually tans. It’s bizarre.

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[-] swab148@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago

That's me! I have dark brown hair and green eyes!

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[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

Heterochromia gang rise up, we are the 1%

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[-] cornshark@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

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

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[-] guillem@aussie.zone 17 points 5 days ago
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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Wow, I never noticed. Beautiful.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

Likely people with Albinism.

[-] xeekei@lemm.ee 23 points 5 days ago

Green eye gang reporting in

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Hazel here, but slowly converting to green team it seems.

[-] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Age be a thing. Hazel green, reporting in.

[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 20 points 5 days ago

Can eye color change with age? I just checked for the first time in many years and its not what I remembered. Used to be a thin, fuzzy ring of light brown inside a vague cloudy blue. Now it's just cloudy, dull blue. Maybe it changes to accommodate lifestyle and personality

[-] glitch1985@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago

Yes especially with age. Both my children's eye color have changed since birth.

[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

That's normal and unrelated. It takes about 6 to i months for the final eye colour to manifest on children.

[-] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 16 points 5 days ago

It can change, mostly related to health. For example viruses and diseases can alter iris color.

If it’s cloudy and dull it may also be early stage of clouding of your lenses (cataract).

If you haven’t seen an optometrist recently, you may want to get checked, just to be safe, they can rule out any ongoing problems :)

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/can-eye-color-change

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago

That's my eye color description. Like a gray-blue.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 5 days ago

My partner tells me that my eyes fluctuate between blue and green. I can’t really tell for sure. I always go look in the mirror when she comments about them. Maybe I should start taking selfies to compare.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 9 points 5 days ago

That's what people mean by gray eyes. I learned this a few years back. They don't actuallyook gray. My eyes are technically "gray" as well.

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[-] Fuck_u_spez_@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago
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[-] ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Put me in the 1% of red eye havers (I smoke weed everyday)

[-] marx2k@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

TIL I'm in the 2%

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