I have very dark green eyes.....my hair is [naturally - not professionally] auburn/brown...and I have Scottish blood running thru me.

I actually love that the percentage of green eyes is so small I also think they are bit more exotic

Oh...in my family....my father and one brother has pure blue eyes (black hair)...my mother and my other brother have green eyes (brown hair). Again, both sides of my family (father and mother) Scottish....but they comes from different parts of Scotland...thus the blue vs green.



[edit on 10/5/2008 by greeneyedleo]

This IS a very fascinating thread..

I have brown/auburn hair now, tending towards blonde and my eyes are, depending on what I wear, either a forest green, or a deep blue grey (sort of like an ocean during a storm).

When I was younger, I had naturally auburn hair with copper highlights.

My family comes from the Hungarian region on my mother's side and from England (Gauls) on my father's. My mother has very light blue eyes and auburn hair, and my father had black hair and blue eyes as well.

It is my understanding from what I remember from high school biology that freckles, red hair and green eyes are all mutations of the blue/brown,
blonde/brown gene alleles in most of the gene pool.

From what I remember brown is always dominant and the blue gene is recessive and the green eyes are a mutation one or the other.

Not harmful weird mutations but mutations none the less.

the reason I remember this lesson clearly is because i remember coming out of class that day feeling like a bit of a freak with my red hair freckles and green eyes.

I was hoping for more than "Eyes change color due to decrepitude or pathology" explanation.

While not Green-eyed ... Nor Blue ... My eyes change color over a period of hours; apparently some aspect of mood has something to do with it! That's a very subjective assertion because I really don't go around looking at my eyes all day. It comes to the foreground for me when people say stuff like... "Hey, I thought you had brown eyes" and "You're eyes are almost golden colored - you freak!" {-- j/k 'bout the freak thing... }

It's odd and hard to explain, but I never had it pointed out to until I was post-pubescent, so perhaps that might be a factor in the explanation.

I would prefer it if they just stayed 'brownish'.

I was wondering this last night..

A few years back, I read a tale online (and for the life of me cannot remember what it was called, or the author's name), but it went on to say that a certain tribe of Native Americans believed that the 'land would be saved and resurrected' by people with GREEN EYES. They thought that green eyed people were very special and would play a significant role in the future of humanity somehow..

I've tried researching to find this story again, as it was told by an elder of this particular tribe, but I just can't find it!

It was extremely interesting nonetheless. And by the sound of that lone story, perhaps there *IS* something more to us green eyed babes after all..

- Mea

[edit on 5-10-2008 by Veritas Lux Mea]

do green eyes i wonder come from mixed races as in say parents and grandparents etc from different countries and regions maybe blue and brown eyes come from people of the same clan dont know just a thought

Originally posted by serin sister
do green eyes i wonder come from mixed races as in say parents and grandparents etc from different countries and regions maybe blue and brown eyes come from people of the same clan dont know just a thought

I've no idea.

Blue+brown /= green.

But perhaps blue+brown can cause a mutation that causes green eyes, in certan circumstances.

I don't even know if green eyes can be passed down, genetically, like blue or brown eyes.

I was the only kid in class with green eyes when we discussed this in school. I felt so left out.