Less than 4% of people worldwide are blue-eyed1

What do people associate with blue eyes?2

42% | sweetness
21% | sexiness
10% | kindness
4% | shyness

All blue-eyed people came from the same ancestor - the first blue-eyed human ever4

1) Anitei, Stefan. How Blue or Green Eyes Appeared, 2008

2) CyberPulse/Impulse Research Corp., survey commissioned by CIBA Vision, women aged 16 to 35, 2002

3) Chanel, Gabrielle, Coloured Contact Lenses Worn By Celebrities. Fashionallure.com, 2012

4) Eiberg, University Copenhagen. Blue eye color in humans may be caused by a perfectly associated founder mutation in a regulatory element located within the HERC2 gene inhibiting OCA2 expression, 2008

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