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Why are a bunch of animal examples attached to blue eyes?

There are no animal examples attached to other eye colors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.109.2.20 (talk) 06:23, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

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)

Hazel Eyes

The hazel eye section is very vague and inaccurate. It says hazel eyes are basically any combination of colors with brown, gold and green being the main components which doesn't really define what hazel actually is. It then goes onto say that hazel eyes are 'sometimes' referred to as being synonymous with the color of a hazelnut when that is the accurate primary definition of 'hazel' eyes, eyes that are the color hazel resembling the golden brown color of a hazelnut. The hazel section needs to be properly addressed and edited to say that hazel eyes are eyes resembling the color 'hazel' which is the color of a hazelnut. Eyes that are the golden brown color of a hazelnut can be a combination of light brown, golds and greens when observed at close range. It can then go onto say that the term hazel can also be used ambiguously to refer to eyes that aren't a solid singular color, often when there's central heterochromia present. 2405:6E00:289:B4FC:BD72:E508:58C1:BE64 (talk) 09:51, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

eye color vs. color vision.

article intersperses discussion of eye color with color vision, causing confusion. 174.65.170.163 (talk) 22:12, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

@174.65.170.163 "Under the same environmental conditions, there may be disagreement over the color of an object between two different people". Also the following paragraph is all about color vision, not eye color. 174.65.170.163 (talk) 22:17, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

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)

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