Why can’t humans be born with naturally different colored eyes?

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Such as red, orange, yellow, purple etc

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Eyes only come in one pigmented color, that’s brown. The blue/green/grey eye colors are structural color, not as a result of blue/green pigments.

As a result, there isn’t a color palate for for eye color. That would enable the kind of color mixing where red+yellow = orange.

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