Guest inoubliable Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 https://richarddawkins.net/2014/08/are-blue-eyes-endangered/Cool video. Watched with DS13, tonight. Most important thing he got out of it? "So mom, 16% of the population is blue eyed, and we know 10$ of the population is left handed. Right? You're super special!!"Yes, son. Yes, I am. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy in NH Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 100% of people in my house have blue eyes; no-one is left-handed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYoungerMrsWarde Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 My dh is a blue eyed lefty! 1/3 kids got his blue eyes, and a different kid got the left-handedness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 We have brown and hazel eyes here, and one lefty (all of the boys in my family are left-handed, but none of the girls). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwik Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 I still haven't worked out what colour ds5's eyes are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenn- Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 We have 2 blued eyed kids and one in the hazel group. We also have a lefty but he has brown eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busymama7 Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 I have a blue eyed red head. He knows he's pretty special ;) but he is right handed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Then my little blue-eyed lefty is extra special! (He's my fourth child, my only lefty thus far, and we are pretty sure he's going to remain a lefty. Funny: my mother's fourth child is also a blue-eyed lefty, her only lefty as well.) All five children inherited my blue eyes over DH's green. One of the five got my dimples. Only our daughter got my brown hair. All four boys are blond. Not one got DH's lovely red hair (his father and his only sibling have red hair as well). One of my brothers was a blond as a kid, although it's more of a dirty blond as an adult, so I obviously have the blond gene somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freckles Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 dd15 has brown hair and green eyes, left handed. dd13 has red hair and blue eyes, right handed. I have red hair and hazel eyes, left handed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWOB Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 My dad had brown eyes, while my mom has blues eyes. All three of their kids ended up with blue eyes. Dh has blue eyes. All three of our kids have blue eyes. What fascinates me is that we all have different shades of blue. My youngest has almost green eyes. My middle has blue blue eyes. The oldest has grayish-blue eyes. It's weirdly neat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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lmrich Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 All blue eyes in this house. We get lots of comments on our eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest inoubliable Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Red hair is disappearing as well. Not so. http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/genetic/redhead-extinction.htm Did you watch the video? LOL. They explain why blue-eyes aren't disappearing, yet they remain rare. Same for red-hair. At 0:33 of the video they start explaining all of this (and mention the red-hair misinformation). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest inoubliable Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Then my little blue-eyed lefty is extra special! YES! He's in the club, and in good company! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest inoubliable Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 My Da and I are left-handed blue eyed. My oldest is brown/black eyes, dark brown/black hair. And right handedMiddle kiddo is a mini-me of my DH - green eyes, brown hair, right handed. Youngest is my mini-me - blue eyed, blonde hair. Right handed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 I knew one little girl with a British father and a Japanese mother. She was blond and had a peaches and cream complexion and the most beautiful blue eyes. I wonder if Mom had blue eyes somewhere in her ancestry? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjand6more Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 I have green eyes. My mom had brown eyes and my dad had blue eyes. Dh has blue eyes and all 6 kids have blue eyes. Only one is a lefty. Are blue eyes really rare? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dory Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Everyone in this house has blue eyes. Although oldest ds has half of his one eye hazel. All 6 of my siblings have blue eyes. Three of my nieces and nephews have bright red hair and my oldest ds has literally a chunk around his crown that is a dark red and everything else is blonde (well, except for a black spot behind each ear). Lots of blonde hair and blue eyes in my family and in my siblings kids. Three of my siblings are ambidextrous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truscifi Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 No blue eyes here and I'm the only hazel. Both boys got dh's brown eyes. We do have a lefty though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest inoubliable Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Are blue eyes really rare? They are. Various sources say 13 - 16% of the country has blue eyes. The video mentions the Scandinavian countries having a 95% of their population having blue eyes. But in this country, yes it's rare. Same with left handedness. That's about 10% of the global population. And that percentage has never been much higher or much lower. A total mystery so far. I've only heard of two theories on why left-handedness remains so rare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest inoubliable Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Everyone in this house has blue eyes. Although oldest ds has half of his one eye hazel. All 6 of my siblings have blue eyes. Three of my nieces and nephews have bright red hair and my oldest ds has literally a chunk around his crown that is a dark red and everything else is blonde (well, except for a black spot behind each ear). Lots of blonde hair and blue eyes in my family and in my siblings kids. Three of my siblings are ambidextrous. Oooh, interesting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizzyBee Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Wow, I had no idea blue eyes are rare. I grew up in an area settled by German immigrants and blue eyes were very common. My parents and all of my siblings have blue eyes. I've always been told that my eyes are my best feature. My husband has hazel eyes and before we had kids, he said he hoped our kids would have my eyes. The older two have hazel eyes, but the youngest has blue eyes. The middle one's eyes sometimes look kind of a grayish blue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom23Boys Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 My DH has brown eyes and I have hazel eyes. My oldest has brown eyes, my middle has blue eyes and my youngest has hazel eyes. We are all right handed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dory Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Oooh, interesting! Yeah my family seems to like recessive genes and being in the minority. I have 5 bright red headed cousins with blue eyes too. The amount of assessed gifted kids amongst my relatives is rather odd too. But then, I don't think normal is ever been a word used on my family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelli Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 All blue-eyed and blonde (well my son and I are a reddish-blonde) here! My dh is blue-eyed and left-handed so doubly rare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewingmama Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 My DD has blue eyes and is left handed. The boys have hazel/green and dark brown. I have dark brown and DH has blue. The interesting thing in my family is that all the girl cousins have blue eyes and all the boys have a version of brown. My sister has red hair and brown eyes. So far her kids have not inherited the red hair. DD is the only lefty in the extended/immediate family In our family it seems like the blue eyes is linked to the XX gene. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paige Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 I'm a green eyed lefty. Does that make me special? :D DH has brown eyes and is right handed. Out of 4 children, there's only one with blue eyes and one left-handed and they aren't the same. Nobody has my green eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewingmama Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 I still haven't worked out what colour ds5's eyes are. I get that. My DS1 has mostly green but part brownish eyes..sometimes with blue. We finally settled on hazel LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Almost all of the redheads I know have light eyes (blue, gray, or green). I think of my DS as being unusual for having red hair but brown eyes. I only know 1 other redhead with brown eyes (a girl I went to summer camp with). She was half-Irish, half-Italian. DS gets the brown eyes from his German-American paternal grandma, and the red hair is from the Irish and Scottish sides. FIL and my dad are Irish and my mom is Scottish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dory Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 My oldest ds left eye is like the eye on the top right of this picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 I have a blue-eyed lefty! All 3 have blue eyes (dh and I both have green). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergath Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 I'm a green eyed lefty. Does that make me special? :D My dd is too. :) I'm a brown-eyed righty, very boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest inoubliable Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 My oldest ds left eye is like the eye on the top right of this picture. Cool! And very pretty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest inoubliable Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 I have a blue-eyed lefty! Woot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest inoubliable Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 My dd is too. :) I'm a brown-eyed righty, very boring. You and your dd are anything but boring. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JessReplanted Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 I am a blue-eyed lefty. And, two of my children are blue eyed. (The baby may be a lefty.. we'll see.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Red hair, centrally heterochromatic eyes (copper/blue, but I can make them look green with the right make-up and clothes), freckles, and O-neg blood. I'll take my Special Snowflake T-shirt now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veritaserum Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Dh has brown eyes. I have blue. Five out of our six children have blue eyes. One has brown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Everybody is posting the 10% lefthanded statistic - which is just one of many statistics, which range from 2% lefthanded to 30%! I will say that, anecdotally, the children I know seem to be about 20% lefties. I really wish we would get a new study on how prevalent lefthandedness is, because I suspect that whatever number you use is, quite simply, out of date. People tend to call themselves lefthanded if they write with their left hands, but in the past (and in some parts of the world today) many children were forced or pressured to use their right hands to write with. This could skew the adult statistics strongly towards righthandedness if we rely primarily on self-identification to obtain our numbers. I really, really, really want somebody to do a study on children and get some updated numbers. (And of course, talk about handedness often ignores issues of codominance, where somebody might use one hand for some tasks and the other for other tasks. For example, you might primarily use your right hand for fine motor skills, like using a fork or a pencil, but primarily use your left hand for more gross motor skills, like throwing a ball or yanking weeds out of the ground. Not entirely sure codominance is the word I'm reaching for there....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Peregrine Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 We've got a blue-eyed lefty(DH) and a blue-eyed redhead(dd11) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSmomof2 Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 I'm a gray-eyed lefty. Ds and dd are blue-eyed lefties. Dh is a blue-eyed right-hander. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 I have five blue eyes, with one red-head. (the rest are various shades of blonde) I also have one who was born copper/auburn-that turned tow as a child. (that one's skin is more stereotypical red-haired skin than the red-head.) one lefty. (and one who thought about it.) my adult sons both have red highlights in their beards. eta: dh and I both have blue eyes. he's a red-head and I'm blonde (my sister is strawberry) and was very light-blonde as a child. I do have a brown streak through one eye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 We have lots of Filipino lefties in the family. Not a blue eye among any of them. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbgrace Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 That was interesting! Hubby and I have brown eyes. Hubby's parents have brown eyes. So I didn't expect a blue eyed child. But we have one! My mother has blue eyes, so I knew I had to have a recessive. It turns out his mother must have a recessive blue that she passed to hubby. I was really surprised when his eyes never changed. Hubby is left handed, and we have a left handed child. That child has brown eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lailasmum Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 My family and my husband's has no brown eyes. We're all either blue (my dh), grey or green (my self and my dd) though I've noticed with the kids they start off very blue and seem to change to grey/green as they've aged. I'm a redhead with green eyes. Lots of left handed people in the family too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alice Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Red-hair for me. No blue eyes in the family. No lefties. I have red hair but no one else in my family does (I'm an only child). When I was born it was so shocking to both sets of parents they went back and researched. They finally found a guy on one side who was a Confederate POW who had red hair (it was on the POW documentation). The other side we still don't know, but on that side my great-grandparents had left Russia during the Communist Revolution and were completely silent about any family left behind. Likely there were redheads somewhere but my great-grandparents, great-uncle and grandmother were all very dark. I married a Chinese-American man. I expected our kids to look much more like him in coloring. Our first was very light, with almost blond hair when he was a toddler. His hair has darkened since then but is still more brown than the typical Asian hair. Our second was dark (looked so much like his brother otherwise that my SIL called him the "Asian version"). My daughter has very light brown hair and greenish eyes. Genes are funny things. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomtoCandJ Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 All four of us have blue eyes here, so far we are all rightys (not sure about dd2 yet). Dh and both have brown hair (though mine does have a hint of red) dd1 is blonde, dd2 is showing hints of red Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane in NC Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 That was very interesting. Thank you for the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momacacia Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 One brown eyed, one blue and one hazel. Only the brown eyed is a lefty--well, far as we know yet. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 None of my kids have blue eyes (2 tried to hang in there, but they did eventually change) but their cousins on both sides do. (One from both blue-eyed parents, one from both brown-eyed parents.) I'm actually surprised by the distribution. Well, except for the 2-blue-eyed-parents kid! Blonde is weird in my family. My parents, sisters, brother, and I were all born blonde. Both parents' hair went very dark as they got older - nearly black. All of us kids went darker as we grew up, but to various shades. I have 2 blondes for now, but I don't know what their future holds. My mom is a lefty, one sister is a lefty, and one of my children is a lefty. (Though she bats righty. ;) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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