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Do most Irish people have brown eyes?
The anthropologists also revealed that of the 10,000 persons surveyed, just 43 had pure brown eyes. Most of the Irish have mixed colors or straight blue eyes, Hooton pointed out. “But,” he said, “the ones with the straight dark eyes seem to live the longest.
Why do Irish people have such blue eyes?
The Irish people are from Northern Europe, a region where light pigmentation prevails! This why blue and light eyes are found in the majority of the Irish people. Though a minority is still brown-eyed. The Irish have one of the highest proportions of light eyes in the world!
Are dark brown eyes rare?
Between 55 and 79 percent of people worldwide have brown eyes. Brown is the most common eye color. Dark brown eyes are most common in Africa, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. Light brown eyes are found in West Asia, the Americas, and Europe.
Which countries have the most common brown eyes?
Most people living in Africa and Asia have dark brown eyes. Dark brown eye color also is very common in the Middle East. But in Europe, both the prevalence and shade of brown eyes vary significantly from region to region.
Why don’t all Europeans have black hair and brown eyes?
Perhaps there was some gene flow between the two groups, but certainly not enough to account for the large number of Europeans with neither black hair nor brown eyes. For others still, this color diversity arose through random factors: genetic drift, founder effects, relaxation of natural selection, etc.
Are there more blue eyed people in England than brown eyes?
To me as an American, a country that is even just 50\% blue eyes, has a lot of blue eyes. So to me, England strikes me as having more blue eyed people, than brown. But of course, if you expect European nations to all have blue eyes, and then actually visit England, you are going to encounter more brown eyes than you expected.
What’s causing the whites of my eyes to become brown?
I’m an African-American and am writing because I wondered what’s causing the whites of my eyes to become brown. The most common cause of the whites of the eyes taking on a brownish and sometimes blotchy color in African-Americans is melanin pigment in the surface tissue of the eye, known as the sclera and conjunctiva.