If blue eyes are a recessive gene and green eyes are a dominant gene, why are there more people with blue eyes?

Question

If blue eyes are a recessive gene and green eyes are a dominant gene, why are there more people with blue eyes?

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Answer 1

The fault assumption is here is that an allele being recessive implies something about the frequency of the allele. It does not. Recessive does not mean less evolutionarily fit, dominant does not mean more evolutionarily fit. They are descriptors for alleles in terms of how they translate from genotype to phenotype, nothing more.