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[LoveToMySilas]

While I was checking my MSN mail, I came across one of the most recent health news (which is why I didn't know where to put this...health...news...health...news...) Anyway, it was about what makes our brown eyes blue. I found it to be quite interesting. Suppoisvely, we all had brown eyes about (insert 5678768 years here). Its a maternal gene.

More info: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22934464/wid/11915773?GT1=10815

Will edit momentarily.

[illriginal]

While I was checking my MSN mail, I came across one of the most recent health news (which is why I didn't know where to put this...health...news...health...news...) Anyway, it was about what makes our brown eyes blue. I found it to be quite interesting. Suppoisvely, we all had brown eyes about (insert 5678768 years here). Its a maternal gene.

More info: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22934464/wid/11915773?GT1=10815

Will edit momentarily.

Uh no... seems like you have it backwards. We're originally formed with blue eyes. I was born with blue eyes, then they went gray, then finally brown. I even have pictures of it, thanks to my mommy.

Then again we were taught that everyone was formed with blue eyes, in biology class.

Does anyone know if it's true that lighter eyes (blue, green) are less light sensitive? I have blue eyes, and my boyfriend has darkkkkkk brown eyes, and when walking in the park one night he looked at a streetlamp and said "*($(*&$" o.O I stared directly at it and proceeded to make fun of him.

Is it because my eyes can receive more light...or are we just weird?

Test it with the sun. When the sun starts to rise or set (normally the sun would be huge in the sky and really orange) gaze at the sun together... then see who's more sensitive. But I honestly don't think eye color makes a difference in light sensitivity.

people with darker skin have more pigments. and pigments protect the uva/uvb rays from getting to the cells underneath. white people have less pigments thus causging the rays to get to the cells when exposed and potentially turning the good cell into a bad cell and leading to skin cancer.

Hmmm... I thought it was melatonin, not pigment o.O

From my understanding, a pale skin human being cannot stay out in the sun all day because the lack of melatonin. But a person who's pale could build melatonin by spending 30 minutes to 1 hour in the sun everyday, thus given them a tan instead of a red burn (sun burn).