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

Put very simply, dominance doesn’t equal to prevalence. I don’t remember alot from high-school biology but this was one of the few facts that stuck with me only cuz it boggled my mind that the six finger gene is dominant to the five finger gene too.