ARE YOU TEAM BLUE, GREEN
OR BROWN?
“Hey, you have a brown spot in your eye,” my ancient calf love once said (long, long ago). What? I sprinted to the bathroom to subject my eye to a meticulous examination. And sure enough, there it was. In the iris of my right eye, kind of diagonally above my pupil. THE SPOT. I thought that was a kind of coolness to have. My deviation was approved. Although I found it strange when I heard that as a blue-eyed person you actually can't develop brown. Uh, Mother Nature, yes you can.
They say your eyes are your soul. That’s completely untrue, because your eyes are your father and your mother. Those two gene packages determine your eye color. Does your father have brown and your mother blue? Then there is one winner in the game. Usually, that’s brown, because that is the dominant gene. This is the simplified explanation of the ultra-complex iris, because I have about a hundred gene combinations that I could throw at you. Those then make complicated exceptions and unique deviations possible, but I won’t bore you with that. What’s fun to know? Eye facts. Here they come.
1. Brown eyes are well represented on our planet, because most people have brown eyes. This is because this gene is quite dominant (usually, in general, most often).
2. Green is actually unique, but again of the dominant kind. Do you have a green-eyed mother and a brown-eyed father? Then there’s a good chance you are of the green kind. So I have a green-eyed love and a green-eyed bestie, hmmm. Dominant stuff.
“Your eyes are your soul, they say.”
3. Blue is not so dominant and rarely wins in the shuffle of brown or green. Oh, hello, it’s me here. In the past, everyone had brown and blue due to a mutated gene. So actually… all blue-eyed people have the same ancestor.
4. The color of your eyes is related to the production of melanin. If you have brown eyes, then there’s a fat chance that you also dark hair have (setting the color brush aside).
5. Your eye has about two hundred eyelashes, TWO HUNDRED. And they serve to keep things clean and dust-free, but also to put on a nice coat of mascara, you know. 6. Do you have light eyes? Then you blink more often than your colleagues with the darker kind. About 10,000 times a day. Oh, and women really blink a lot, because they do it almost twice as much as men.
7. When you look at your beloved, your pupil can become about forty-five percent larger. In other words, your eye is one big pupil all over the place.
8. Due to the pigment, a blue eye turns brown. Oh, so that’s what’s going on with my right eye. Thanks, science.
“Hey, you have a brown spot in your eye,” my ancient calf love once said (long, long ago). What? I sprinted to the bathroom to….
