Learn About The Origins of People With Green Eyes

Green eyes are especially rare. They posses low to moderate amounts of melanin(which is what makes brown eyes brown) and probably represent the interaction of multiple mutations in the OCA2 gene and others. Recently the Mendelian recessive trait has been disproven. What we were taught in school about eye color before 2007 was not correct. The Mendelian theory stated brown eye color was dominant over blue, so a person with two brown genes or a brown and a blue gene would have brown eyes, and only two blue genes with no brown gene could make blue eyes. The study disproving the Mendelian theory was published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, and was supported with grants from Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council and the United States of America's National Cancer Institute.

Mutations in genes can cause one to have the color eyes they have, these mutations could be beneficial or non beneficial. DNA swapping goes on between chromosomes before an egg or sperm is developed. Only one pair of chromosomes is put into an egg or sperm. The recombination of genes could have happened at this stage.

Environmental factors, such as radiation, viruses, chemicals can switch eye color genes on or off. This could happen at any time before your birth, in your father or mother (even during pregnancy) and also to older generations in your family (mutations can lurk for ???). This is an area that needs further research as there are so many possibilities and eye color is not closely tracked. We know some chemicals, such as the glaucoma medication, bimatoprost can change light eyes to dark, This chemical is used in several lash lengthening cosmetic that were introduced a few years back and is now only available through prescription. Some users reported their eyes had darkened and filed lawsuits against the makers of the product.

To understand green eyes, first we have to look at blue and brown eyes. Researchers do not know if people with blue eyes shared one common ancestor, this is an ongoing argument that scientists are trying to learn. There is significant evidence that the first people had only brown eyes. A mutation most likely occured 6-10,000 years ago to spur human reproduction during a time of sparse food, epedemic, or something that was killing off massive amounts of people. Blue eyes first were seen in areas of northern latitudes where there are shorter hours of daylight, this could POSSIBLY play a big role, because blue eyes allow more vitamin d to be let in the body, thus preventing people with the traits of light skin and blue eyes to develop diseases such as rickets. Being such a rare color and representing health in these areas, brown eyed people instinctively wanted to have children with the blue eyed/light skinned people. Brown eyed people with darker skin are better equipped to handle sunny areas where there are longer daylight hours. Blue eyes carry a low amount of melanin compared to brown eyes. When you mix blue and brown eyes you might get green eyes (as above there are lots of factors denoting which eye color you will have). Only rarer are violet, which are exclusively found in the Kashmir Mountain Region, an area that is currently disputed between Pakistan and India, these are borderline albino eyes. And then finally red eyes, which is a product of the genetic condition albinism.

So that brings me to green eyes finally.

We do know for a fact that green eyes tend to appear in places where blue eyed people came into contact with brown eyed people probably a direct effect of evolution. Countries such as Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Spain, northern Africa and Brazil all have had people with green eyes for a long time. When the moors invaded Spain, green eyes appeared. All races, white, black, asian, hispanic, native american's all can have green eyes, this is perhaps what makes them so odd. Warriors in Northern Europe, including Russia invaded countries to the south and found the darker women exotic and different. They bred with them, left some behind and brought others back, thus producing green eyed children around the world.

Only about 2% of the world's population have green or hazel eyes, most of them being female.

Here are some interesting unproven traits that green eyed people are said to possess:

Green eyes are said to be magical. People with green eyes tend to have long lasting relationships. They are the most passionate. People with green eyes are said to be handsome. It also has been said green eyed people are jealous, such as the saying "green with envy". Green eyed people may have liver or other digestive problems. In a non scientific survey, green eyes are said to be a powerful aphrodisiac.

Many people with green eyes or light eyes also have "chameleon eyes", or eyes that change color. They fall into the amber, hazel, green, grey, blue range.

• mood
• weather
• temperature
• colors you are wearing
• colors around you
• lighting
• Drastic eye color changes, especially in adults, could be a sign of an eye problem, so see your eye doctor.

Eyeshadow that makes green eyes stand out more are colors in the purple(plums, lavender, lilac)family, coppers, greens, apricot and gold.

I expect that the majority of the votes in the poll will be "green eyes" because many people that read this article will be curious about their own eye color, thus it will be biased. Keep this in mind.

Here is a list of celeb's with green eyes, notice how diverse the people are: Charlize Theron, Kate Hudson, Tyra Banks, Scarlett Johanssen, Lindsay Lohan, Kristen Stewart, Hayden Panetierre, Jennifer Connolly, Aishwarya Rai, Rihanna, Adrianna Lima, Vanessa Williams, Julianne Moore, Paris Hilton, Ava Gardner, Cyndi Lauper, Dita Von Teese, Jean Harlow, Megan Fox, and the one semi-famous person of Asian descent (male) is Jon Gosselin.

Here is a bit of interesting trivia, take it with a grain of salt. The International Community for Alien Research conducted a study of potential alien contactees and found that green eyed people were the largest group to report contact!

"Green/Hazel eyes make up 48% of the 1400 contactees that took part in this study and make up 70% of the O Neg. group. Blue eyes making up 36% of the blood types and 23% of the O Neg. group. Brown eyes make up 16% of the study group and 7% of the O Neg. group."

You can read more here: http://icar1.homestead.com/Contactee-Blood-types.html