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| 2006-10-23 - Weird News Shaveta Bansal - All Headline News Staff Writer Blue-Eyed Men Prefer Blue-Eyed Women | ||
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-- A research by Norwegian scientists suggests that blue-eyed men prefer blue-eyed women, apparently because eye color can help reveal whether their partner has been faithful. The study finds its basis on the law of genetics which states that two parents with blue eyes will always have blue-eyed children. "Before you request a paternity test, spend a few minutes looking at your child's eye color," Bruno Laeng and colleagues at the University of Tromso in Norway said in the study. To investigate, scientists asked 88 students to rate the attractiveness of models based on pictures manipulated so that half of them had blue eyes and the other half had brown eyes. The male students in the blue-eyed group showed a preference for blue-eyed women. But the brown-eyed men, who cannot find any clues about paternity from a child's eye color, had no preferences by eye color. Women also showed no preference for brown- or blue-eyed men, irrespective of their own eye color. Two brown-eyed parents, who have both brown and blue-eye genes among their ancestors, have a 25 percent chance of having a blue-eyed child and 75 percent chance of having a child with brown eyes. In a second study, 443 young adults of both sexes were asked about the eye color of their partners. Researchers found that blue-eyed men were again the group with the highest proportion of partners with the same eye color. "Blue-eyed men may have unconsciously learned to value a physical trait that can facilitate recognition of own kin," the scientists hypothesize in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
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