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Why is editing blocked on an article with such poor sourcing?

"DNA studies on ancient human remains confirm that light skin, hair and eyes were present at least tens of thousands of years ago on Neanderthals, who lived in Eurasia for 500,000 years."

No, those sources don't say that -- especially the bit about "500,000 years," but more important (given the subject of the article) nothing "confirms" "light eyes" in Neanderthals, only light skin and red hair. Genes expressing blue eyes in modern homo sapiens were present but less dominant in a couple DNA samples mentioned in one of the articles, but that's it, and the article warns that the study is not widely accepted and that we ahve no way of knowing what the actual effect of thse genes would have been.

Yet there it is: DNA studies on ancient human remains confirm that light skin, hair and eyes were present at least tens of thousands of years ago on Neanderthals, who lived in Eurasia for 500,000 years.

Who besides me will actually READ all five of those sources? It's not unlikely that the original editor who contributed the sentences had racist motives. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:cda0:9220:c1ea:12f4:f079:be78 (talk • contribs)

I'm not sure what the argument is about, but the genetics people are stating that Neanderthals gave the homo sapiens light skin and light eyes over a period of time.ie blue and green eyes. Not sure why that would upset anyone or be a controversial idea. https://www.eupedia.com/europe/neanderthal_facts_and_myths.shtml

there no way 8-10% of world population has blue eyes

world population is over 8,000,000,000

europe population is only 750,000,000 or 9.3% of world population and also western europe has at least 50 million non-europeans

even most indigenous europeans have brown eyes

in reality only about 1-3% of world population has blue eyes Ostrich2Emperor (talk) 15:16, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

There's a common myth all over the internet that 8%-10% of people internationally have blue or gray eyes. 3% have 'true' gray eyes. 1% have 'true' violet eyes. 2% have green eyes. 5% have amber eyes. 5% have hazel eyes and the rest of the world have typical brown/dark brown. Even though many articles online have relayed these stats, this information on the internet is incredibly inaccurate as not only do the percentages not make much sense but it's also impossible to know exactly what percentage of the world has which eye colors.

Countries in North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia can have anywhere between 1%-20% of light eyes amongst their population depending on the country and i'm sure these populations aren't being taken into account when determining worldwide percentages of violet, blue, gray, green, amber, hazel, typical brown or dark brown eyes.

Eye colors like gray, green, amber and hazel are also difficult to determine as they fall in the middle of the spectrum in between deep blue and dark brown eyes so up close gray eyes can be just a light/pale blue. Hazel eyes up close can be green eyes with brown central heterochromia which would make them technically green eyes as the true color is always the outer color and true hazel eyes are just a light golden brown, not green eyes with central heterochromia. green eyes up close can be blue eyes with brown central heterochromia making their true color actually blue. The very specific amount of pigment needed to create amber eyes which are the lightest possible shade of brown would make them much rarer than green eyes in general, definitely not 5% of the world's population.

The origin of these made up international percentages of light eyes which have circulated all over the internet are most likely the result of a North American theory. There are definitely no reliable sources which can prove these percentages. 203.49.228.129 (talk) 07:05, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

Europe is not the only place with a high amount of diversity. Hastengeims (talk) 06:56, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Anyway, reliable sources say that, the number between 8 and 10 is correct, it may even be more according to some marginal sources. Hastengeims (talk) 06:59, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Delete "Caucasian," substitute "of European descent."

Caucasian means "from the region surrounding the Caucasus Mountains." The relevant text is actually referring to "white" individuals, i.e. people of European descent. The phenomenon by which "Caucasian" morphed into "white" is based in nineteenth-century thought that privileged the Caucasian as "special" or "exemplary" whites. There is no reason to use the term now as a formal why to refer to whites. By Misplaced Pages's own sourcing, the term is "an obsolete category for race."

https://en.wikipedia.org/Caucasian_race

Why one earth can't I edit the text for eye color? Is it a controversial subject? 2600:1700:5B2C:A090:3111:682E:5CD6:AF1 (talk) 21:24, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Those violet impressive eyes that God gifted to Türkmen race , Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is one of the best example of these fascinating and wonderful eyes in known history. 88.230.9.99 (talk) 08:18, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

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Please can you remove the photo of Daniel Craig with the caption "Actor Daniel Craig has the most common eye color in the U.K. as of 2014: (blue: 48%, green: 30%, brown: 22%)." This is not true. The linked source is a Times article which quotes a project by 'ScotlandsDNA'. This is a disgraced company, not a scientific source. The myth that blue eyes are more common in the UK now is widespread but untrue. All other studies suggest brown is the most common (even in Scotland!). Green is likely to be the least common. Please see the links below. I would be really grateful if you could remove this misinformation. Thank you for your help.

1) Dubious practices and claims by this company: https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/2/4/47 2) Brown is the most common eye colour in UK as of 2019: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1872497318303387 3) Brown is possibly even the most common eye colour in Scotland (small sample from 2009): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2810292/ 217.155.204.10 (talk) 15:09, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

 Done ― novov (t c) 05:19, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Gender and Sex are not interchangable, Edit request!

The article says that "gender" is a deciding factor in what color a person's eyes are. The word gender links to the wikipedia page about gender which is defined as sociocultural. This term should be replaced by "sex" instead because its referring to the biological sexes instead. 152.7.255.202 (talk) 15:55, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Eye Color and Low-Light Vision Studies

Under the "Impact on Vision" section, there's no mention of findings related to vision in low-light. I'd add it myself but this is yet another gatekept article (rather ironic for a wiki site, no?)

You can find a reference to a study at the University of Copenhagen here: https://katrinapaulson.medium.com/study-suggests-people-with-blue-eyes-can-read-better-in-dim-lighting-01b39d1862a6

…and to a study at Liverpool John Moore University here: https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/news/articles/2024/2/7/blue-eyes

…as well as a passing reference to the findings in a section marked "Does eye color affect night sky vision?" here: https://www.almanac.com/seeing-in-the-dark

While these aren't absolutely conclusive, I would argue they're no less substantiated or valid than the portion referring to the study on "Correlation of eye color on self-paced and reactive motor performance." Gaius315 (talk) 16:00, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

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