I want to ask if it is possible for a pure egyptian to have blue eyes and is this very rare in egypt for most people?
Posted by mac0623 (Member # 10529) on :
of course possible. like a white couple can have a black baby or black people with blue eyes, and i just thought if you want to see an egyptian with blue eyes then go in the hilton in sharm
Posted by Supercar (Member # 6477) on :
quote:Originally posted by mac0623:
like a white couple can have a black baby
...and not via adoption (?); tell me that you are just being lighthearted. Lol.
Posted by ausar (Member # 1797) on :
Light eye coloring in modern Egyptians is rare but it occurs in some cases. You have to consider that most of the Egyptians today probably have some mixture with people like Circassians and even other Europeans. Usually the light eye coloring is green not blue,and usually the person with the light eye coloring still has brown skin.
Posted by Supercar (Member # 6477) on :
quote:Originally posted by Supercar:
quote:Originally posted by mac0623:
like a white couple can have a black baby
...and not via adoption (?); tell me that you are just being lighthearted. Lol.
Several independent genes must work in concert to produce the deepest complexion—the extreme of the darkness adaptation.
Many things can go wrong and, when they do, the result is a lighter complexion. For instance, deleterious mutations at the five loci above result in various forms of albinism, whether the patient’s heritage is dark or pale. In other words, there are many random ways “accidentally” to evolve a light complexion.
But no genetic defect can make the child of light-skinned parents come out dark. [Nelson’s syndrome does this, but it is due to a pituitary tumor, not to a mutation, nor to genetic variability (Robins 1991, 125-26).] - Peter Sweet
So in a scenario where a “white” couple, exhibiting melanin levels as seen in northwest Europe, reproduce a "black" [i.e. unusually heavily pigmented skin for northern Eurasians] offspring, it would probably be in the best interest of the said couple to pursue their curiousity, by looking into a precautionary medical test for perhaps, Nelson’s syndrom - which as stated, has nothing to do with recessive genes. Lol.