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Are we all born with blue eyes?

  • 04-12-2008 12:54PM
    #1
    pimpy_c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 209 ✭✭pimpy_c


    This has been an ongoing argument between myself and my girlfriend so I have to find out. Are we all born with blue eyes? She says yes, I say no.

    Now I've googled this but a lot of sources aren't very reliable. Some say most people are while others say we all are. Somebody please tell me.


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  • #2
    Smart Bug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭Smart Bug


    No.

    /thread.


  • #3
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,822 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    I cane believe Im answering this seriously but no. Brown eyes are actually the dominant gene. So if one parent has blue eyes and the other has brown then the child will have brown eyes.


  • #4
    asdasd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,185 ✭✭✭asdasd


    Most of y'all Caucasians are born with blue eyes


  • #5
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,773 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Most babies are born with blue eyes and then some change to brown within the first six weeks. But some babies are born with brown eyes so there is no definitive answer

    EDIT: I might be racist but I was only talking about white babies


  • #6
    themadchef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,813 ✭✭✭themadchef


    Ongoing argument?? Find something better to argue about........


    Ask her has she put on weight, thats a good start.


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  • #7
    Isabelle Faint Granule
    Posts: 6,645 ✭✭✭ Isabelle Faint Granule


    I've always heard this. Is it an old wives tale? I'm pretty tanned with dark hair and eyes and I was born with really dark blue eyes.


  • #8
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    ShooterSF wrote: »
    Brown eyes are actually the dominant gene.

    I'll dominate your brown eye


    /gets coat


  • #9
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    ShooterSF wrote: »
    I cane believe Im answering this seriously but no. Brown eyes are actually the dominant gene. So if one parent has blue eyes and the other has brown then the child will have brown eyes.

    Question 1. Then why do some people have different colour eyes to their siblings?

    Queston 2. Why do arabs all have brown eyes? Is it cause of the dominance of brown eyes?


  • #10
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Afaik this is only true for kittens.


  • #11
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,822 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    (OK ShooterSF even if you are mistaken the important thing is not to admit it but dig your heels in and use any argument to back it up.)

    kraggy wrote: »
    Question 1. Then why do some people have different colour eyes to their siblings?

    Queston 2. Why do arabs all have brown eyes? Is it cause of the dominance of brown eyes?

    Lets answer number two first as its the easier one. Eh, Yes.

    Now for question one. Women hide affairs well. QED.


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  • #12
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Born with Blue eyes = No.

    But apparently from when the eyes are first made inside the lovely warm lady bits, they start off as blue, but they change during growth of the feutus.
    I have not looked inside nearly enough pregnant women to confirm or deny this.


  • #13
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    Ok I am training as a midwife so this is the closest I can give to an accurate answer 90% of children are born with blue eyes, which within the first 6 weeks change to the colour that is most likely going to be the colour they remain for the rest of their lives. the other colour the eyes are when the baby is born is brown unless the baby has albinism in which case the are scarlett red in rare cases.

    Yes some people notice that this occurs also with puppies and kittens, I suppose it must be a mammalian trait


  • #14
    oztots
    Closed Accounts Posts: 297 ✭✭oztots


    ShooterSF wrote: »
    Brown eyes are actually the dominant gene.

    Not up here in ireland it isnt, that is for the world. And i believe there not many asians with blue eyes. Or africans, indians, arabs, pygmies or monkeys.


  • #15
    Corruptedmorals
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,195 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    kraggy wrote: »
    Question 1. Then why do some people have different colour eyes to their siblings?

    Queston 2. Why do arabs all have brown eyes? Is it cause of the dominance of brown eyes?


    Because the child needs to have the blue-eye gene from both parents in order to have blue eyes. Let's say both parents are Bb, which means they have brown eyes but carry the blue-eye gene. I think you have to construct a grid thing for this this but it always goes- Child 1- BB (brown eyes), Child 2 Bb (brown eyes), Child 3 bB (brown eyes), Child 4 bb (blue eyes). Of course, doesn't always work out in that order.


  • #16
    Kdub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭Kdub


    wolfpawnat wrote: »
    Ok I am training as a midwife so this is the closest I can give to an accurate answer 90% of children are born with blue eyes, which within the first 6 weeks change to the colour that is most likely going to be the colour they remain for the rest of their lives. the other colour the eyes are when the baby is born is brown unless the baby has albinism in which case the are scarlett red in rare cases.

    Yes some people notice that this occurs also with puppies and kittens, I suppose it must be a mammalian trait

    Not being racist but you'll probably dealing with Irish babies, i'd say most babies are born with brown eyes in the world scheme of things


  • #17
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Eyes ..we have eyes ??? Hey ..I can seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :eek:


  • #18
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    Kdub wrote: »
    Not being racist but you'll probably dealing with Irish babies, i'd say most babies are born with brown eyes in the world scheme of things

    Now hopefully this isnt taken badly but you would not believe the amount of foreign nationality babies born in the Dublin hospital I am doing my training in, and with a large number of Asian and African women giving birth there I can tell you,

    Asian women mostly have blue eyed babies and yes the African women have the most brown eyed, but with all humans there is always the exception too:)


  • #19
    johnnyrotten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,595 ✭✭✭johnnyrotten


    Smart Bug wrote: »
    No.

    Yes


  • #20
    Hrududu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭Hrududu


    I cane believe Im answering this seriously but no. Brown eyes are actually the dominant gene. So if one parent has blue eyes and the other has brown then the child will have brown eyes.
    Nope. A person with blue eyes will have a bb combo. A person with brown eyes can be either Bb or BB. If they are Bb then there is an equal chance of them passing the blue eyed gene onto their kids.


  • #21
    vodkadub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭vodkadub


    ShooterSF wrote: »
    I cane believe Im answering this seriously but no. Brown eyes are actually the dominant gene. So if one parent has blue eyes and the other has brown then the child will have brown eyes.

    not true in my case my fathers eyes were brown and my mothers blue


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  • #22
    High&Low
    Closed Accounts Posts: 323 ✭✭High&Low


    kraggy wrote: »
    Question 1. Then why do some people have different colour eyes to their siblings?

    Queston 2. Why do arabs all have brown eyes? Is it cause of the dominance of brown eyes?
    ShooterSF wrote: »
    (OK ShooterSF even if you are mistaken the important thing is not to admit it but dig your heels in and use any argument to back it up.)




    Lets answer number two first as its the easier one. Eh, Yes.

    Now for question one. Women hide affairs well. QED.
    Corruptedmorals wrote: »
    Because the child needs to have the blue-eye gene from both parents in order to have blue eyes. Let's say both parents are Bb, which means they have brown eyes but carry the blue-eye gene. I think you have to construct a grid thing for this this but it always goes- Child 1- BB (brown eyes), Child 2 Bb (brown eyes), Child 3 bB (brown eyes), Child 4 bb (blue eyes). Of course, doesn't always work out in that order.


    I have green eyes (they were blue when I was born).

    My wife has brown eyes (no idea what they were when she was born as I didn't know her then)

    Our first child has brown eyes, they were very dark brown when she was born.

    Our second child has blue eyes. Very blue eyes!!!!


  • #23
    alexjk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 226 ✭✭alexjk


    I'm one of eight children in my family.Mother has green eyes, father has blue eyes.I'm the only one to have inherited the green eyes, all the others have mad blue eyes.I had blue eyes when I was born though.


  • #24
    Kdub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭Kdub


    wolfpawnat wrote: »
    Now hopefully this isnt taken badly but you would not believe the amount of foreign nationality babies born in the Dublin hospital I am doing my training in, and with a large number of Asian and African women giving birth there I can tell you,

    Asian women mostly have blue eyed babies and yes the African women have the most brown eyed, but with all humans there is always the exception too:)

    well cant argue with that..!! first hand experience!!:D


  • #25
    Kdub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭Kdub


    High&Low wrote: »
    I have green eyes (they were blue when I was born).

    My wife has brown eyes (no idea what they were when she was born as I didn't know her then)

    Our first child has brown eyes, they were very dark brown when she was born.

    Our second child has blue eyes. Very blue eyes!!!!

    What colour eyes does the milkman have??


  • #26
    chops1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 210 ✭✭chops1990


    ShooterSF wrote: »
    I cane believe Im answering this seriously but no. Brown eyes are actually the dominant gene. So if one parent has blue eyes and the other has brown then the child will have brown eyes.


    Thats wrong actually coz my dad has blue eyes my mother has brown, and i have blue eyes


  • #27
    Peewee_lane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 649 ✭✭✭Peewee_lane


    I was born with blue eyes and they changed to green...


  • #28
    Kdub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭Kdub


    chops1990 wrote: »
    Thats wrong actually coz my dad has blue eyes my mother has brown, and i have blue eyes

    Its not wrong chops...your da would probably have 2 blue genes ..yo ma 1 brown 1 blue therefore giving her brown eyes ... as its dominant...so you get 3 blues 1 brown therefore giving you blue eyes ...


  • #29
    High&Low
    Closed Accounts Posts: 323 ✭✭High&Low


    Kdub wrote: »
    What colour eyes does the milkman have??

    same colour eyes as the postman...


  • #30
    Smart Bug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭Smart Bug


    johnnyrotten wrote: »
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Smart Bug
    No.


    Yes


    Maybe?


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  • #31
    Doc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Doc


    Kdub wrote: »
    Its not wrong chops...your da would probably have 2 blue genes ..yo ma 1 brown 1 blue therefore giving her brown eyes ... as its dominant...so you get 3 blues 1 brown therefore giving you blue eyes ...

    Both my parents have brown eyes but I have blue.

    No one dominants me bitches!


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