Newborn Eyes

It could be that babies are born into the world with perfect knowledge having just come from the creator. They arrive fully aware of all the mysteries of the universe and no way to tell us what they will soon forget just as we did before them.

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Different Color Eyes

I met this striking young lady recently and she graciously allowed me to capture some images of her beautiful eyes.


I have seen four individuals with this condition in my life time.

According to the experts at Scientific American.com, it was once believed that eye color was controlled by a single gene and inherited in a straightforward fashion (remember Mendel from high-school biology?). These days it's not quite that simple. We now believe that eye color is a polygenic trait.

Eye color is determined by the amount of melanin, a dark brown pigment, present in your irises. Blue eyes are due to a lack of melanin, while brown eyes
indicate melanin-rich irises. Thus, people with darker hair and skin have higher levels of melanin and tend to have brown eyes, while people with lighter hair and skin have lower levels of melanin and usually have lighter colored eyes. This is also why many babies are born with blue eyes. Their eyes change color later as they begin to produce more melanin.

When an individual has different amounts of melanin in each of their irises, their eyes are different colors. Heterochromia iridium (the scientific name for two different color eyes in the same individual) is relatively rare in humans but common in some animals, such as horses, cats, and certain species of dogs.
A variation on the condition is heterochromia iridis, in which an individual has a variety of colors within one iris.

Heterochromia iridium is thought to result from an alteration to one of the genes that controls eye color. This can be an inherited trait, although trauma and certain medications may result in increased or decreased pigmentation in one of the irises. Certain medical syndromes, such as Waardenburg syndrome, may also cause someone to have two different colored eyes.

Some people with this condition wear colored contact lenses so their irises match, while others take pride in their striking appearance.

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One Blue, One Green!

Eyes are more than just light receptors with which we gaze upon the world. They are communicators of thought and feeling. I am reminded of this by our neighbor’s cat. It is rare to see two eyes of differing color looking at you from the same cranium. It is actually quite shocking.

I have rarely encountered this phenomenon but I can remember vividly each time I have been whiteness to it. We have a local news caster who has just such a pair of eyes and on one occasion while visiting a state forest I saw a lovely little girl with eyes of differing color.

When something is rare and wonderful it makes an impression. If you were to have eyes like this you would certainly gain an extraordinary amount of notoriety in your sphere of influence. A blessing and a curse all at once.

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What is your experience with different colored eyes?

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