People are born with the eye color they get according to their genetic predisposition. But the color of the iris may also depend on some other factors - the location of pigments, the presence of melanin and the functioning of blood vessels. Brown eye color is considered the most common, and blue-eyed people, despite the generally accepted opinion, are somewhat less common on our planet. Ten thousand years ago, all people had exactly brown color eye.
It is difficult to imagine why the change occurred and other shades arose. But the interesting thing is that there are people with amazing eye color, which makes the look mysterious and unusually beautiful. So which one is the best rare color eye?
Green is considered the rarest eye color. Only two percent of people on Earth have this unique eye color. This may be due to the fact that in the Middle Ages, green-eyed beauties were called witches, for which they were subject to burning at the stake. People with green they tried to avoid the eyes, believing in their witchcraft abilities.
If we consider the issue with scientific point vision, then everything is explained by the amount of melanin produced, which is responsible for the color of the eyes. Green-eyed people produce little coloring pigment. There is also an opinion that this eye color occurs in red-haired people.
Owners of such beautiful eyes do not even need to use mascara, because the eyes are already very expressive and deep. Most often, this most beautiful eye color is found in women - it is quite rare to find a green-eyed man.
This is a truly unique eye shade that fascinates and makes you admire. Some even believe that it is simply impossible to have naturally purple eyes. However, this eye color exists in reality, although it is extremely rare to meet owners of this eye color.
Medical representatives believe that this shade is the result of a mutation that is completely harmless and does not negatively affect the organ of vision. But how lucky is the owner of this eye color - you just have to see these very beautiful eyes, how you can “drown” in their attractiveness and depth. Elizabeth Taylor just had violet eyes, which made her the most beautiful woman, attracting with its mystery and sexuality.
It is also very rare to find this eye color. Again, red eyes are due to the lack of melanin, and therefore the color of the iris is determined by the work of blood vessels and the presence of collagen fibers. These eyes are also called “albino eyes,” but this is an exception since albinos have mostly brown or blue eyes.
This is a type of brown eye. However, this shade is very rare. The warm golden color of the iris gives the eyes a pretty exotic look and special attractiveness.
This eye color, despite its rarity, can still be found in nature more often than all of the above. This shade occurs due to the high content of coloring pigment in the iris. Light hitting the iris is completely absorbed, giving such “darkness” to the eyes. Most often, black eyes can be found in representatives Negroid race.
My daughter has eyes of the most ordinary color - gray with brown rays around the pupil. She looks with envy at the albino cat with bright blue eyes and sighs: “I wish I had those, Matvey!” I adequately explain to her that people do not naturally have eyes of this color. And if she feels so bad with her “relatives,” then when she grows up, she can turn her gray eye color into sky blue, amber or violet with the help of contact lenses.
In fact, blue is not at all the rarest eye color in the world. Although there are not so many owners of truly ultramarine irises. There are enough amazing things in nature, and as it turns out, you can even find purple and red eyes, not to mention the emerald green ones beloved by all novelists.
What eye colors are considered the rarest? There is no exact data about this. But we can distinguish five groups that are the least common and always attract the attention of others with their brightness and unusualness.
Eye color depends on the amount of melanin, a pigment that is present in the body of any person.
What is an iris in essence? This is a thin diaphragm that is located between the posterior and anterior chambers of the eye. The iris is impenetrable, but mobile, located in its center. It is permeated with vessels and can be of different thicknesses - this also affects its color. But the main role is played, of course, by the amount of melanin - the coloring pigment that is produced in the body of every person.
Melanin is responsible not only for eye color, but also for the shade of hair and skin. The more it is, the darker the person. Eye color is also affected by the reaction of the pupil to light. When it narrows, melanin concentrates in the iris, making it brighter. If the pupil dilates, the pigments disperse and the color of the iris becomes correspondingly lighter and more transparent.
The hereditary factor also affects the shade of the iris. It is natural that dark-eyed children are born to dark-eyed parents, although they can have eyes of any shade - blue, green, hazel. But for light-eyed parents, a child with brown or black eyes is very rare. In addition, the following factors can change the shade:
- Liver diseases - in this case, the iris will have a yellowish tint.
- A small amount of melanin pigment and a thin iris have a red or purple tint, since this is the color of the vessels of the iris.
- Very a large number of pigment - the eyes become blue-black or black-brown.
All of these factors can be combined and superimposed on one another. It is then that very interesting and unusual shades are obtained - blood red, purple, amber yellow, yellow green. All this is quite understandable from the point of view of physiology and there is no mysticism here.
Red iris - albinos
Red and purple eye colors are considered a feature of albinos - people with very fair skin and almost colorless hair. This is the reason for such an unusual and even frightening shade complete absence melanin in the ectodermal and mesodermal layers of the iris.
In this case the color red is given blood vessels and the collagen fibers that make it up. This shade can be found in representatives of any race, both men and women.
Green eyes - mermaid or fairy?
There are twice as many women with green eyes as men. Astonishingly, the authors of women's novels are right in many ways when they reward their green-eyed, beautiful heroines with red curls. Green color iris is indeed a gene that is inherent in most cases to all red-haired people. Along the edge of the iris there is a special pigment - lipofuscin. He has yellow. When mixed with melanin in a small amount (and red-haired people have little of it, it’s not for nothing that they are so light-skinned), a green tint is obtained.
They usually have a heterogeneous color; you can see rays of yellow, brown, and sometimes blue. They tend to change shade depending on the psycho-emotional state, clothing, lighting, and makeup. Interestingly, there are many more green-eyed women than men. These are mainly residents of Central and Eastern Europe.
Violet color - where does it come from?
Many believe that the violet shade of the iris is the rarest. Where does it come from, what is it? Mutation, a gift from the gods or an echo of alien civilizations? Neither the first, nor the second, nor the third. A mesmerizing purple hue appears when red and blue are mixed. Blue is provided by the pigment melanin, which was already mentioned above. And red is the color of the vessels in the iris.
There is an opinion among scientists that this combination may be due to the human environment. For example, in North Kashmir, purple eyes are not at all uncommon. Among Europeans, the violet hue can vary from transparent amethyst to blue-purple.
Amber – molten gold
Amber eyes are quite rare and are classified as a variety of brown eyes. Amber eyes look very unusual, they seem to radiate warmth and sunlight. To some they resemble liquid gold or copper, to others the hypnotizing eyes of a wolf. Scientists classify them as a variety of brown eyes. Often they have an admixture of green or yellow, sometimes brown.
Eyes black and burning
The black color of the iris always indicates great content melanin. Just as we are not surprised by gray or blue eyes, in the countries of Asia or Africa black is not considered a rarity. But everything changes if such deep, simply bottomless eyes go to a fair-skinned blonde. True, Europeans still rarely have completely black eyes, like representatives of the Negroid race. More common eye colors are graphite, obsidian, blue-black or black-chestnut.
Different colored eyes - is heterochromia dangerous?
It is very rare to meet people whose eyes have different shades. In medicine, this phenomenon is called and considered an anomaly. It can be congenital or acquired after an eye injury, surgical intervention or previous ophthalmological disease. There are two types of heterochromia:
- full – when the color of one eye is noticeably different from the other;
- partial or sector - when only one eye stands out in color.
You can often find this feature in animals - dogs or cats. But there are also enough people with such an anomaly - for example, US actress Kate Bosworth has eyes of different shades.
Heterochromia can be either congenital or acquired. People have their own interpretation of why people have eyes of rare, extravagant shades. It is believed that magicians and people prone to mysticism have black eyes. The purple hue speaks of positive energy and purity of the aura. The green color of the iris is a symbol vital energy, strength. Amber is a sign of endurance and vitality, and red is a sign of a passionate, emotional nature.
Don't be discouraged if you have the most common gray or grey. The main thing is what they emit, because it is truly a mirror of the soul, and only their expression can tell a lot about your thoughts, feelings and character - not color at all.
Green color has rightfully earned the title of “rare eye color.” It is found in Holland, Iceland and Central Europe, and is less common in other parts of the planet. The color of the organs of vision is determined by the amount of melanin in the cornea, the density of collagen fibers and light scattering. The most common colors are brown, dark blue or gray. The shade of the shell is a fickle phenomenon; it can change over the course of life. This process is influenced by vision pathologies and internal organs.
What does it depend on?
Eye color in humans is determined by the amount of melanin, the pigment of the iris, in the mesodermal (front) layer, since the ectodermal (back) layer is always dark. The darker they are, the more melanin. This is how brown eyes, black or light brown, are formed. Blue or green eyes are formed when the percentage of melanin is less. Red eye color in humans is rare. People who have unusual red eyes are called albinos. In this case, the iris white color, in which the percentage of melanin is zero and the effect is provided by vessels filled with blood. The ratio of pigments is a genetic factor.
It is believed that dark colors dominate the population over light shades. If one parent has high percentages of pigment in the iris, then the children are more likely to have dark color. Nature has its own laws and color can change over time. In the European race, melanin tends to accumulate and due to an increase in the percentage of pigment, the eyes gradually darken. With advancing age, the membrane becomes pale due to the loss of transparency of the mesodermal layer. Some pathologies visual system cause changes in eye color.
What colors are there?
A newborn baby's irises are blue.
The most common eye color is blue, less often the organs of vision are gray or blue. This is due to the low density of collagen fibers and a small percentage of melanin, in which case a person’s eyes are blue. The saturation of the shade will come from the lower density of the fabric. This color is more common in newborns in the first few months of life. With a higher fiber density, the shade will be bluer or gray. This type of color is common among Europeans. In women of Central and Northern Europe often bright green; for other regions of the planet and for men this shade is unusual. Popular colors:
- brown;
- grey-green;
- blue;
- amber;
- green with hints of tint.
Sapphire eyes are a very rare color. They are actually never found, they are often called when they see a honey or amber green color. Light colors more often observed in newborns or elderly people.
The natural purple tint of the iris can be caused by a pigment mutation. Mutation of the pigment can cause unique shades such as violet, magenta, amethyst. Natural colors of such shades are found in a very small number of people. Ailments such as glaucoma, cataracts, decreased visual acuity, photophobia and other diseases of internal organs can provoke color changes. There are more people with gray, brown and blue eyes. Also the shade is distinctive feature region of residence.
Eyes are the mirror of the soul. You can drown in their bottomless depths, you can pin them to a place with your gaze or captivate your heart forever... Masters of words often use similar epithets. And indeed, sky blue eyes enchant, bright green eyes enchant, and black eyes pierce through. But how often in real life can you meet green-eyed people, and what eye color is the rarest? Read on for answers to these questions.
What eye colors are there?
In reality, there are only 4 pure eye colors - brown, gray, blue and green. But the mixing of colors, pigmentation, the amount of melanin, and the network of blood vessels together create many shades. Thanks to this effect, there are people with light brown, amber, black and even red eyes.
This is theoretically possible, but practically no one has seen it yet
Scientists who study what determines eye color, the heredity of this issue and possible mutations have experimentally determined that theoretically people with violet eyes should live on Earth.
Purple, from a genetic perspective, is a pigmented version of the color blue. Except scientific theories There is evidence that in the remote corners of North Kashmir on the Hindustan Peninsula there are residents with real lilac eyes. Unfortunately, this is only oral evidence, not confirmed by photography or video, so skeptics are cold to such a statement.
However, the eyes of Elizabeth Taylor, a popular actress and queen of Hollywood, had an unusual lilac color. This is clearly visible in the film “Cleopatra”, where she played brilliantly main role. And these could not be colored lenses, because their production began in 1983, and the film was released in 1963. Although the play of light and shadow, coupled with skillful makeup sometimes they work miracles...
If we discard the hypothesis about the existence of people with violet eyes on earth, then we can safely say that green is the rarest eye color on the planet. Only 2% of the world's population possess it. In this case, the following patterns are observed:
- The vast majority of green-eyed people live in central and northern Europe, mainly in Scotland, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Norway, Iceland, and Finland. If in Iceland 40% of the total population have green eyes, then this color of the “mirror of the soul” cannot be found in Asia or South America;
- In women, this eye color is 3 times more common than in men;
- there is a direct relationship between green eyes and skin and hair color. Green-eyed people are almost always white-skinned and most often red-haired. During the Inquisition, green-eyed, red-haired women were considered witches and burned at the stake;
- If mom and dad are green-eyed, then the probability of having a child with the same eye color is 75%.
If only one parent is green-eyed, then the probability of having the same baby is reduced to 50%. Interestingly, if one parent has brown eyes and the other has blue eyes, they will never have a green-eyed child. But if both parents are blue-eyed, then the child’s eyes will probably be green, and not blue color. That's genetics!
U famous poetess Marina Tsvetaeva's eyes were a beautiful emerald shade. Demi Moore and the beautiful Angelina Jolie have irises of the rarest natural green color.
Amber or gold
These colors are varieties of brown eyes. They have monochrome yellow tint or a mixture of golden, light brown tones. Such exotic wolf-like eyes are very rare. Their amazing color is due to the presence of lipofuscin pigment.
Blue lake – blue magnet
In third place in terms of prevalence are blue eyes. They are most common among Europeans, especially in the Baltic and Northern European countries. For example, almost all Estonians (99% of the population!) and Germans (75% of the population) are blue-eyed.
This shade is quite common among residents of Iran, Afghanistan and Lebanon.
Gray and blue are shades of blue, due to the greater saturation of melanin in the iris. Grey eyes capable of changing tonality from light gray, mousey to the rich color of wet asphalt, depending on the owner’s mood and lighting.
It is known that only about 6 thousand years ago a mutation occurred at the gene level, as a result of which the first child with blue eyes.
Blue-eyed people have a greater need for sex and pronounced reproductive functions.
Brown-eyed
The most common eye color is brown. Depending on the saturation of melanin in the iris, the eyes can be light or dark brown, almost black. Scientists are 100% sure that 10 thousand years ago all people on the planet had brown eyes.
A variety of brown shade is black. Black-eyed inhabitants of the Earth are most often found in Asia and Africa. Scientists know that dark color skin causes dark eye color. A black man with blue eyes is the rarest phenomenon on the planet.
Pathologies
Deviations from the norm are red and multi-colored eyes. In the first case, the cause is albinism - a congenital absence of the coloring pigment melanin in the body. In the second - heterochromia, a congenital or acquired pathology. Since ancient times, people with with different eyes attributed magical abilities.
The eyes seemed to many to be a kind of mirror that opened the curtains of the soul. And the rarest eye color is the ocean of the spirit, as people said in ancient times. This old saying remains relevant today. In the most rare eyes we see pain and mental suffering, in some there is boundless happiness and joy, and some do not carry any information at all, an emptiness of view and indifference to everything in the world. Each individual has his own (different from others) eye color. It, like fingerprints, is never repeated, although visually the eyes different people may be the same. But there are also those on Earth who have the rarest eye color. It is this point that the article will focus on.
The most common eye color: unexpected data
With our eyes we look at the reality around us. And this is no secret to anyone. Eye color begins to form even during human conception, as it is inherited by a certain gene. During the expert scientific research Doctors have found that there are only eight most common variations of eye shades. The most common eye colors among humankind are hazel and brown. Visual organs with a dark tint are mainly observed in people who constantly live in southern latitudes or in the north (or were born there). And all because it is the dark (brown) shade that is capable of reflecting bright colors from the eye. daylight from the sun. In second place are blue eyes that look like a lake. Statistics: what eye color is the rarest are very few.
What determines eye color?
Ten thousand years ago, representatives of primitive people on planet Earth practically did not differ from each other in terms of the shading characteristics of their eyes - all of them had brown eyes, sometimes their shade only changed slightly. But due to some change in the body of primitive representatives of people, something suddenly changed. There was a gene failure. Representatives of humanity have appeared with different eye shades. Eye color, like all the characteristics of an individual, depends on the triplet, which is passed from parents to child through inheritance.
What is the rarest eye color among representatives of humanity?
Many will be very surprised when they find out what eye color is the rarest. It is impossible to give an exact answer. Due to constant evolution, the rarest color of human eyes has constantly changed. Of the most common and famous (if you can call it that) eye shades, the rarest eye colors can be called greenish and turquoise. Green eye color is the rarest in the world. Scientists made a statement about this based on the results of their own research. Although this seems very strange to many. On planet Earth, people with a greenish tint to their eyes make up only 2 percent of the total population. Many people think that this simply cannot happen, because green eyed people meet very often. However, this is actually a misconception. Very often, gray-eyed people are mistaken for green-eyed people because optical illusions, light placement and other factors. For example, if a person with gray eyes is on the street, the shade of the eyes may change. Sometimes gray shades, depending on the space surrounding a person, acquire a blue or green “hint”, but in fact they are gray, and this is not the rarest eye color.
In girls for variability gray Even makeup affects the eyes. Eyes can be artificially made either green or blue.
Why are there so few people on the planet with “real” green eyes?
There can be many reasons. And which of them is reliable is almost impossible to find out. So, everyone knows that in the Middle Ages all green-eyed girls and many men with green eyes were considered witches or magicians and burned at the stake. Previously, no one even figured out whether the girl was a witch or whether she was involved in any “dirty” activities. Everyone, even those who had even a hint of a green tint, was burned at the stake. Historians know of many cases where even the king’s children were killed in such a brutal way because of the color of their eyes. Many believe that this is why the green shade (color) is currently considered rare. But what is the rarest eye color, excluding green?
But there is another, more scientific version. Melanin is responsible for the “production” of the green color of the organ of vision in the body. It is he who determines the color of the eyes. People with greenish eyes do not have enough melanin in their body. But most people have enough of this substance in their bodies, so they have a different eye color.
A rare eye color (green) can be more often found among representatives of the fairer sex. And only 5 percent of the stronger half of humanity can boast of green-eyed “eyes.” The rest are women. Therefore, to the question of what eye color is the rarest in men, you can answer with almost complete confidence – green. Again, a contradiction arises, because mostly women were killed at the stake in the Middle Ages. Green-eyed men were burned only after a serious investigation by the Inquisition. Therefore, a contradiction arises, why it is very difficult to meet a man with a rare eye color, that is, greenish. After all, men (“sorcerers”) were burned very rarely. No one can explain such a contradiction. But many suggest that, most likely, the organs of vision in men with greenish are very rare due to some kind of genetic failure.
The Netherlands leads the ranking of the most “green-eyed” countries. More than one in two of all people with green eyes live there. Another approximately 30 percent live in Iceland and the remaining 20 percent in Turkey. Moreover, in Norman countries, people with a greenish tint to their eyes can be more often found with red curls. Therefore, there was a stereotype that all red-haired people most likely have green eyes.
Despite the fact that scientists have identified as many as 8 shades of eyes, greenish is not included in this list, since it is truly the rarest eye color in humans.
But what is the rarest eye color, excluding green?
Heterochromia: what is it?
If we talk in simple words, then heterochromia is an eye disease (can be either congenital or acquired), in which the organs of vision differ in color completely or partially. Acquired heterochromia can appear as a result of a disease or due to injury.
Experts distinguish two types of heterochromia in people:
- Full. In this case, both eyes are different in color from each other.
- Partial (sometimes also called sector). Only some part of the eye is different. This type of heterochromia is more common in humans.
Heterochromia is considered a disease of animals (usually cats and dogs), but its manifestations can often be seen in humans. There are many “stars” who suffer from heterochromia. For example, actresses Kate Bossier and Daniela Ruah. But what eye color is rare in those who suffer from heterochromia? The question is controversial.
The most unusual eye color in the world
It is already known that people are born with pink, reddish, sapphire, blackish and rainbow eyes. But maybe this is just a myth, what is the rarest eye color in the world in reality? These issues need to be understood very well.
Pink-violet eye shades
Many people believe that people with pinkish eyes can be seen in Everyday life almost impossible or they don’t exist at all. Probably, most people believe that such shades are given to them by lenses, but such colors do not exist in nature. In fact, pink eyes are not a myth. Pink (a rare eye color) is considered by most scientists to be the most unusual eye color in the world. Representatives of humanity with pink and lilac organs of vision really exist. Some medical workers It is believed that this eye color is associated with the presence of mutated codons in a person. Such a mutation does not affect vision in any way and is invisible to the entire organism as a whole. Some actually believe that, on the contrary, purple eyes made people happy.
Scientists believe that pink or lilac eye color could appear due to Marchesani syndrome. It is not true. Among the symptoms of the disease, the exact change in the tint characteristics of the eyes has not been identified. However, this fact cannot be excluded. Thus, pink is also, like green, a rare eye color.
Red eyes in a person
Almost everyone knows that albino people exist. But no one has seen such unusual representatives of humanity, especially with red organs of vision. And all because the red-blooded tint of the organs of vision in albinos is rather rare than commonplace. Most albinos have brown-brown and blue eyes. But red shades of eyes are less common than others, so red, just like pink-lilac, is a rare eye color.
The effect of bright red eye shades occurs due to a small amount of a substance in the body that regulates the shade. If there is little or no amount of it in the body, blood vessels begin to appear through the eyes, which is why the eyes acquire such an unusual shade.
Sapphire (amber) eyes
A very strange eye color, which, as most people think, cannot exist at all. But if you dig deeper, the sapphire eye color is a shade of brown. Sapphire eye color, like red, is a very rare combination. Sapphire (sometimes called amber) eyes are very bright, they have a warm, even golden, tint. The eyes, which have a sapphire tint, are compared to the gaze of a wolf. Only a few people in the whole world have this eye color, so if you meet such a person, then consider yourself very lucky.
Black eyes
Black eyes, like sapphire ones, can be called a variety of brown. Despite the fact that they are considered the rarest on earth, they are much easier to find than those described above. The black tint occurs due to a high concentration of melanin. Most often, dark-skinned representatives of humanity have such an extraordinary color of their visual organs. This is explained by their black skin color, for which, sometimes, too much melanin is produced. But there are also exceptions. Black eye color can also occur in a person with white skin. This is also not uncommon. The black color sometimes changes to brown or grayish when the body's production of the substance that determines the color of the eyes decreases. Sometimes it occurs rainbow color eye. It combines different eye shades.
What is the rarest eye color? The question, despite its simplicity, is quite complex, wouldn’t you agree? It can even be considered rhetorical. It is very difficult to give an exact answer to this, because perhaps humanity does not even know about some eye shade. The rarest eye color in humans is very controversial. It is worth taking into account such a phenomenon as heterochromia. After all, the combination of different shades of color of the organs of vision is, in fact, the rarest eye color.
But at the moment, the answer to the question of what eye color is the rarest on the planet is red.
Although this is also an ambiguous answer, since the red color of the eyes is caused by blood vessels, not melanin. That is, “red” cannot be considered a color in this case. There is a lot of subjectivity in this issue; to some, the color may seem rare, but to others it is common.
What do you think is the rarest eye color?
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