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    Quote Originally Posted by Glordit View Post
    Not entirely, your eye colour can change to blue if you spend too much time in a snow glare, hence why people wear sunglasses in extremely cold climates, as snow reflects almost +70% sunlight back again.
    Yup, but it's definitely got something to do with cold weather, same as pale skin. 99% of Estonia has blue eyes, 75% of Germany etc. etc. But seeing a shortage of melanin causing light to follow a rayleigh scattering path as a mutation is wrong. There's nothing mutant about blue eyes apart from our eyes being a lot more light sensitive due to the lack of the dark melanin pigmentation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stunt View Post
    Yup, but it's definitely got something to do with cold weather, same as pale skin. 99% of Estonia has blue eyes, 75% of Germany etc. etc. But seeing a shortage of melanin causing light to follow a rayleigh scattering path as a mutation is wrong. There's nothing mutant about blue eyes apart from our eyes being a lot more light sensitive due to the lack of the dark melanin pigmentation.
    Those stats can't be accurate re: Germany, surely? A large portion of their population is now made up of immigrants, mainly Turkish.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Voice View Post
    Those stats can't be accurate re: Germany, surely? A large portion of their population is now made up of immigrants, mainly Turkish.
    Study from 5 years ago:



    Wikilink - Search for Germany.

    The Jewish population (darker skinned) are also known for carrying the Blue Eye trait, it has some dominance to it.

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