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ooli@lemmy.world to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Eye colour percentages around the world

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Eye colour percentages around the world

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  • Podunk@lemmy.world
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    The center eye of the grapic not being brown is kinda ironic. Not gunna lie.

    The stats are there!!!

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

    • xrun_detected@programming.devBanned from community
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      The centre being all black would have added a nice touch

    • Prehensile_cloaca @lemm.ee
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      Anything whitewashable will be whitewashed

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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    I did not know naturally occuring red eyes existed.

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      Albinos

      • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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        oh. I guess I knew about that.

    • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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      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
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        The eyes in that one image look cool.

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    deleted by creator

    • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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      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
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      Punitt squares, haven’t missed those.

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    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
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      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.

      • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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        Can I ask what color your kid’s freckles are? I ask, because the redheads in my family have orange freckles, and the non-redheads have brown freckles. It looks like that correlates with the type of melanin, which would also affect whether they tan.

        • foofiepie@lemmy.world
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          Brown… that may explain it?

    • swab148@lemm.ee
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      That’s me! I have dark brown hair and green eyes!

    • Bashnagdul@lemmy.world
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      I have brown hair and brown eyes. My wife has blond hair and green gray eyes. We have a son with red hair and blue eyes. And yes he is my son. Genetics are weird.

    • iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world
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      I have lightish brown hair, my eyes used to be brown but are now hazel brown, and I have a reddish brown beard. My shits all over the place.

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    Violet? wtf?

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      • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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        deleted by creator

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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          Wow, I never noticed. Beautiful.

    • PunnyName@lemmy.world
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      Likely people with Albinism.

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    Green eye gang reporting in

    • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.world
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      Hazel here, but slowly converting to green team it seems.

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        Age be a thing. Hazel green, reporting in.

  • NickwithaC@lemmy.world
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    red/violet

    I want to see a photo!

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      Source: https://www.eyebuydirect.com/blog/what-is-the-rarest-eye-color

      • ElmarsonTheThird@discuss.tchncs.de
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        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).

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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          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.

      • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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        That’s wild

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    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

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

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

    • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net
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      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
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      That’s my eye color description. Like a gray-blue.

    • dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Bright blue until I was at least in my teens. Faded to grey by the time I was in my 30s.

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

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    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.

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      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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      You probably have grey eyes then. It has shades of blue and green

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        Guess my eyes are gray, then.

    • DaPorkchop_ [any]@lemmy.ml
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      Mine are similar, they’re normally light brown but people tell me they look green sometimes when the light hits them at a certain angle.

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      Yeah mine do something similar but they are most certainly green on a normal day.

      I think it’s refraction off of shirts etc that give a bluish look

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        That’s what “gray” eyes are.

    • ardrak@lemmy.world
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      Same

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      That makes them hazel. Right?

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        Funny thing is that I am not even sure what the definition of hazel is, so I don’t know. I haven’t tried to find out, tbh.

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    Missed opportunity:

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  • cornshark@lemmy.world
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    This chart could have really used some pictures of eyes of each colour…

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      Yeah, but someone would be offended by some perceived DEI lack.

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    Heterochromia gang rise up, we are the 1%

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      You got that mixed up. The 1% are typically the ones that need rising against.

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

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

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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world
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      You’re also just rare

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    TIL I’m in the 2%

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