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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Along with the other answers, I also once read a study which concluded that people with blue eyes are more likely to reproduce with partners who are also blue eyed.
Blew my mind, and I thought about it and tried to apply it to myself to figure out some sort of “why”. My wife has blue eyes and I do too. And yep, imagining myself being with a woman with not blue eyes feels weird. It’s nothing conscious. I’ve got nothing against green or brown eyes, or the people that have them. But when I try to imagine that *intimate* feeling with someone that doesn’t have blue eyes, it feels… Mildly uncomfortable. Something deep down inside my mind is actively steering me away from “wrong” eye colors. It’s so fucking weird. I’m sure if I’d clicked with some absolutely amazing woman with brown eyes, it wouldn’t have been a big deal to override that instinct, but the fact that it **is** a factor is pretty fascinating regardless.
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