How Do Our Eyes Get Their Color?
BrainStuff
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🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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There are no blue or green pigments in the human eye, so how do those eye colors occur? Learn about the complex genetics and light scattering that give our eyes their color (plus how rare different eye colors are) in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/eye/rarest-eye-colors.htm
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