Hey guys, I was just in a discussion about this very subject. It turns out that some people believe that humans with blue eyes have special powers that let them see colors on a much wider spectrum and that their blue eyes give them night vision. Is there any scientific basis for this or is it just pseudo-scientific nonsense?
Eye Pigmentation and Vision
Luis Parker
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Thomas Cooper
>iris
>vision
"no"
Levi Ortiz
If blue/gray/green eyes didn't come with any benefits over brown/black eyes, why did the mutation spread instead of dying out?
Grayson Clark
It's not that it has benefits, but it stopped being a drawback in a region with less sub exposure.
Blue eyes are more sensitive to sunlight, that's all.
Brody Gray
the color of the iris has no effect on the quality vision op.
just lok up a simple wiki page of the eye
David Foster
Ice blue eyes are insane.
Isaac Baker
Sensitivity to light implies better vision. Blue eyes also have the benefit of being widely regarded as beautiful, which is a boon since sexual selection is a very real thing.
Liam Jones
>blue eyes give night vision
Ignore them/yourself op, that's completely retarded.
If you want night vision as a human you will have to go colorblind and hope the genes involving it go into extra brain processing into sensitivity at low light. Just like the micronesians in Pingelap.
Jose Gomez
It doesn't, it implies that your retina is getting fried.
Joseph Hughes
>being able to percieve smaller fluctuations in the light that reach your eyes doesn't imply better vision
Maybe we're thinking of two different things when we say "sensitive"?
Blue eyes being of no benefit also makes you wonder why certain ethnic groups ended up being 60-80% blue eyed. Why would a recessive gene be so widespread without providing any benefit?