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  2. Eye color - Wikipedia

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    Brown irises contain more or less melanin. Some eyes have a dark ring around the iris, called a limbal ring. Eye color in non-human animals is regulated differently. For example, instead of blue as in humans, autosomal recessive eye color in the skink species Corucia zebrata is black, and the autosomal dominant color is yellow-green. [101]

  3. Impossible color - Wikipedia

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    These are simultaneously dark and impossibly saturated. For example, to see "stygian blue": staring at bright yellow causes a dark blue afterimage, then on looking at black, the blue is seen as blue against the black, also as dark as the black. The color is not possible to achieve through normal vision, because the lack of incident light (in ...

  4. The Rarest Eye Color in the World: What It Is and Why

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    They say that eyes are the windows to the soul. Often, a person's eye color is the first thing we notice about them when we meet them. And undoubtedly, every eye color shines with its own beauty.

  5. Heterochromia iridum - Wikipedia

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    It occurs in humans and certain breeds of domesticated animals. Heterochromia of the eye is called heterochromia iridum or heterochromia iridis. It can be complete, sectoral, or central. In complete heterochromia, one iris is a different color from the other. In sectoral heterochromia, part of one iris is a different color from its remainder.

  6. How Rare Are Hazel Eyes, Exactly? - AOL

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    Hazel eyes tend to change colors due to Rayleigh scattering—the same factor that makes the sky appear blue. This optical effect occurs in the stroma, which is a thin layer of tissue in front of ...

  7. Waardenburg syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Type 1 is characterised by congenital sensorineural hearing loss, pigmentary deficiencies of the hair such as a white lock of hair in the front-centre of the head or premature greying, pigmentary deficiencies of the eyes such as different-coloured eyes (complete heterochromia iridum), multiple colours in an eye (sectoral heterochromia iridum) or brilliant blue eyes, patches of skin ...

  8. How rare is a blue-eyed cicada? And why are some ... - AOL

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    The historic dual cicada emergence continues across Illinois. As we come eye to eye with these insects, the revelation is prompting people to ask about the way these things look. Here are a few ...

  9. Dichromacy - Wikipedia

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    Dichromacy (from Greek di, meaning "two" and chromo, meaning "color") is the state of having two types of functioning photoreceptors, called cone cells, in the eyes. Organisms with dichromacy are called dichromats. Dichromats require only two primary colors to be able to represent their visible gamut.