Hazel eyes add even more diversity, often appearing to shift between green and brown depending on the light.So, what lies behind these differences As pigment gradually builds up over the first few ...

Three new genetic loci have been identified with involvement in subtle and quantitative variation of human eye color. Previous studies on the genetics of human eye color used broadly-categorized trait ...

Editor’s Note: This feature is part of Colorscope, an award-winning series exploring our perception of color and its use across cultures, one shade at a time. See more here. When you’re next staring ...

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"We knew of all these people whether they had brown, blue or any other color eyes. Computers searched their DNA for areas that have something to do with eye color. In this way, we found 61 genes ...

The new color, "olo," is a hyper-saturated version of blue-green Getty Scientists conducting targeted retinal stimulation claim to have discovered a new color. In a study published in Science Advances ...

Researchers have revealed that chimpanzees and bonobos share the contrasting color pattern seen in human eyes, which makes it easy for them to detect the direction of someone's gaze from a distance.

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