Like most human traits, blue eyes are determined by genes, and no two people have exactly the same hue. It works a lot like ...
A study published in Nature Communications reveals the first documented case of blue eyes in a 17,000-year-old newborn from the Paleolithic era, born with a heart condition. The remains of the ...
Today, blue eyes are admired for their beauty, but for a significant part of human history, they were an evolutionary anomaly - a random mutation that triggered a series of genetic and societal ...
Human eyes are actually spheres ... and the cones see the colours: red, green and blue, and all the millions of shades in between. The rods and the cones send information about shapes and colours ...
The intricacy and seeming perfection of the eye, both as an object of anatomical beauty and as a working machine, have worried and intrigued scientists, philosophers and zealots, especially during ...