Blue Eyes
Everyone in our family has blue eyes. All my aunts, uncles, cousins, parents, siblings and children. Everyone except for my one nephew, who has brown eyes. We jokingly call him our changeling!
Our blue eyes are very striking, too. Some people call them electric blue. I call mine “mood ring eyes” because they change color depending on what I am wearing. They don’t actually change color, they just reflect the color of my clothing or even my eye makeup. I often get asked if I am wearing colored contact lenses.
Some interesting facts about blue eyes:
- Only about 8 percent of the world’s population have blue eyes and they are typically people from nationalities found near the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.
- There is no blue pigment in blue irises. Blue eyes have less melanin than brown eyes and get their color the same way water and the sky does — they scatter light so that more blue light reflects back out.
- All blue-eyed people may have a common ancestor. According to researchers at the University of Copenhagen, a genetic mutation in a single individual that lived in Europe between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago led to the development of blue eyes, and is therefore the likely cause of the eye color of all blue-eyed people alive today.
So, if you have blue eyes, we may be cousins!
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