Ever wondered what the most common eye colors are? Well, they might not be exactly what you expected them to be.

Like most human traits, blue eyes are determined by genes, and no two people have exactly the same hue. It works a lot like ...

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Blue eyes are caused by a gene mutation. For years, researchers had searched for it on the OCA2 gene. The OCA2 gene determines how much brown pigment is in our eyes. But what they were looking for ...

It seems a little unfair. The ladies love blue eyes, and babies already have a cuteness advantage. The iris is the muscular ring around the pupil. And its color depends on a protein called melanin ...

Lighter eyes are idealised across societies, which often posit brown eyes on the most ‘boring’ end of ... when those windows are a shade of ocean blue, looking out into cloudless skies.