Like old Hexy said most people in Finland have blue eyes, do any of the animals witth blue eyes live outside that area?

www.pawnation.com/2011/11/11/blue-eyed-babies/

Mike wrote:
There are animals on that link from Madagascar,Africa,South America and Asia with blue eyes.

humanspirit wrote:

Low levels of sunlight seems to be a factor in some humans developing blue eyes if i understand it correctly.

Scandinavia has longer periods of darkness so it would make sense that blue eyed people fared better than dark eyed people.

Don't Eskimos live in places where it's dark for long periods?have they developed blue eyes?

There is most likely something in European genes that makes them more adaptable to their environment,that's why they are so varied in looks compared to other classifications of humans.


Tyndall effect-

A blue iris in an eye is due to Tyndall scattering in a turbid layer in the iris. Brown and black irises have the same layer except with more melanin in it. The melanin absorbs light. In the absence of melanin, the layer is translucent (i.e., the light passing through is randomly and diffusely scattered) and a noticeable portion of the light that enters this turbid layer re-emerges via a scattered path. That is, there is backscatter, the redirection of the lightwaves back out to the open air. Scattering takes place to a greater extent at the shorter wavelengths. The longer wavelengths tend to pass straight through the turbid layer with unaltered paths, and then encounter the next layer further back in the iris, which is a light absorber. Thus, the longer wavelengths are not reflected (by scattering) back to the open air as much as the shorter wavelengths are. Since the shorter wavelengths are the blue wavelengths, this gives rise to a blue hue in the light that comes out of the eye.[2] The blue iris is an example of a structural color, in.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndall_effect

This our first anti-Germanic thread?

oioioi wrote:
I'll take the pro-Germanic stance since I have 2 branches of my family tree that go back to The Sacred Fatherland.....

oioioi wrote:
LOL

I was just pointing out that nature is amazing.

people look different because of where they developed,its no big deal to me.

If any nazis think they are more special thats their sillyness.

dreadnaught wrote: Most English people would have similar Anglo-Saxon linages.
'England' is derived from Angle (Angeln)

dreadnaught wrote: Lol, just noticed this.

Shame it's blown apart by the reality of the advances made by early Islamic science which were foundational to 'european' developments
Y'know, little things like alphabets, mathmatics, cartography, astronomy, physics etc.

feather wrote:
Here is what wiki answers say on that:

wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_invented_algebra

chandrakavi wrote:
The average Arab IQ is 85.....they didn't exactly do much with the stuff they invented.......or maybe they just translated it from the Greek.....
You can't believe everything that Wikipedia says.....Islam is as narrow minded as the Catholic church......It took Martin Luther & the reformation to get the ball rolling to go into space.....

dreadnaught wrote: Wow,, actual upfront, in-your-face, racism.
Wtg cathar.

dreadnaught wrote:
Arabs are fellow human beings so when you criticise them as a whole and try to find faults you are simply looking for faults in humans as a species which includes us all.

If you were to point out an individuals faults by their actions then that would have validity.

Some good inventions from the Arab world- Algebra,some of the architecture is amazing,Damascus steel is good quality.

Terence McKenna said : "Civilization is a frantic race to get off the planet or deep underground in order to avoid the
global apcalypse that returns on a regular time cycle.....................................................

Who has done that ?.....& who has not ?

feather wrote:
He's just pointing out actual differences between his sweeping generalisations of different races.

When I lived in the USA, I alwasy wondered why it was that just about everyone had blue or green eyes.
Could it be posibly something in the food, cereals. Besides the genes, I mean.
I remember having read something about the food they ate.
it's normal.

Not so in Chile, just about a majority are brown eyed, and a couple have clear eyes,
like my daughter, but she is the exception, not the rule.

Brings this back to mind:



Didn't the american Gov, after WWII take all the Nazi scientists to work for them?
Operation Paper-Clip ,who knows what might have happened and we don't know.