From an evolution pov blue/green eyes shouldnt mog brown

[nel9d]

Sounds like cope but brown eyes have been proven to have way more melanin which helps a ton, like resisting sunlight, having a lesser chance of getting eye cancer etc...

So why (outside of contrast) do blue/green eyes tend to be more attractive to people than the biologically dominant brown?

 

[nel9d]

Bump

 

[Deleted member 254331]

Perhaps the genetic variation of blue eyes is biologically an attraction

 

[widdi]

When and where did blue eyes appear? And why?

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Low polygyny rate. Food was largely meat from herbivores, mostly reindeer. Because men were the hunters, they alone had to provision their wives and children with sufficient food. Only a very capable hunter could provide for two wives and their offspring. If single women were too numerous, only a few could pair up with a polygynous male.

High male death rate. Game animals had to be pursued over long distances: “hunter-gatherers in northern continental environments … must forage across large areas in order to secure highly dispersed and mobile prey” (Hoffecker, 2002, p. 8). Again, men were the hunters, and their risk of death was a function of hunting distance. The longer the distance, the higher their risk of death from drowning, starvation, exposure, lack of shelter, and other hunting-related accidents.

Together, these two factors led to a surplus of unmated females. Too many women had to compete for too few men. Women were thus under strong selection for colorful features that could attract male attention, including new hair and eye colors (Frost, 2006; Frost, 2022).
Today, hair and eye colors are most diverse within a region that roughly corresponds to the European steppe-tundra of the last ice age, if one allows for the cover of ice over Scandinavia and the Alps. Yet this steppe-tundra also extended into parts of North Asia.

Why, then, do indigenous North Asians have only black hair and brown eyes?
The reason may be that the steppe-tundra was colder and drier in North Asia than in Europe, being farther north and further removed from the moderating influence of the Gulf Stream. The Asian steppe-tundra thus supported much smaller human populations, which frequently died out — especially during the glacial maximum. The effects of sexual selection were thus repeatedly reset to zero. Also, in a smaller population, selection has to wait longer for suitable alleles to appear through mutation.

 

[nel9d]

When and where did blue eyes appear? And why?

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What about males? After reading this i kinda understand why a blue eyed female is more attractive than a brown eyed one but why men?

 

[wewuzaryans134]

colored eyes are a predator trait

 

[nel9d]

colored eyes are a predator trait

How come

 

[wewuzaryans134]

How come

lions:

tigers:

cat:

 

[nel9d]

lions:
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Whyd you show a pic of a lion even tho it has brown eyes

 

[wewuzaryans134]

Whyd you show a pic of a lion even tho it has brown eyes

those are hazel eyes

 

[widdi]

What about males? After reading this i kinda understand why a blue eyed female is more attractive than a brown eyed one but why men?

Brown = poop

It’s more aesthetic for both genders, but it specifically spread in both genders in the late ice age because there was a surplus of women and their beauty was very important in ancient times relative to men. It doesn’t matter if you can see a little better when you aren’t even hunting. Having a man choose you is more important. Obviously when women start having colored eyes that gets passed on to the men too eventually

 

[nel9d]

Brown = poop

It’s more aesthetic for both genders, but it specifically spread in both genders in the late ice age because there was a surplus of women and their beauty was very important in ancient times relative to men. It doesn’t matter if you can see a little better when you aren’t even hunting. Having a man choose you is more important. Obviously when women start having colored eyes that gets passed on to the men too eventually

High iq, thanks