There is a village in China called Liqian, in which two-thirds of all inhabitants today have green eyes and blonde hair. Green eyes and blonde hair are a rare combination. The high concentration of green-eyed, blond-haired people in Liqian is thought to be linked to their ancestry.
Many of the villagers have Western characteristics including green eyes and blonde hair leading some experts to suggest that they may be the descendants of a lost Roman legion that settled in the area. Now DNA testing of the villagers has shown that almost two thirds of them are of Caucasian origin.
In South Asia and East Asia
There was slightly more eye color variation among South Asian participants than East Asian participants. Few East Asian participants had green eyes, while none had blue eyes. Other research has also concluded that most Asian people have brown eyes.
Essentially, green eyes are unique. Most common in Western, Northern, and Central Europe, green eyes often point to German or Celtic ancestry. Currently, they can be found most often in Iceland, the Netherlands, Scotland, Britain, and Scandinavia.
For example, Asians typically have brown eyes, while Europeans are more likely to have eyes of blue or other lighter hues.
The 5 colors of the iris are blue, gray, green, light brown, and brown. Therefore, this 5 color system cannot be applied to the classification of the iris color of Koreans, whose eyes are homogeneously colored brown.
There are plenty of blue-eyed Asians. This probably happens when the traditional blue-eyed allele comes into a family from a (possibly very distant) European ancestor. Blue eyes then resurface in a child generations later if they inherit the allele from both parents.
For example, Asians typically have brown eyes, while Europeans are more likely to have eyes of blue or other lighter hues.
For years the residents of the remote north western Chinese village of Liqian have believed they were special. Many of the villagers have Western characteristics including green eyes and blonde hair leading some experts to suggest that they may be the descendants of a lost Roman legion that settled in the area.
Of those four, green is the rarest. It shows up in about 9% of Americans but only 2% of the world's population. Hazel/amber is the next rarest of these.
Amber eyes, which have slightly more melanin than hazel eyes but not as much as brown eyes, account for about 5% of the world's population. People of Asian, Spanish, South American, and South African descent are most likely to have amber eyes.
So where did our green-eyed ancestors come from? Most origins point to areas around the Caucasus Mountains, which link Asia and Europe. That may help explain why so many different countries and continents have had green-eyed populations for thousands of years.
Gray eyes can also be found among the Algerian Shawia people of the Aurès Mountains in Northwest Africa, in the Middle East/West Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia.
For East Asians, it is actually possible for them to have lighter eyes. Contrary to popular beliefs that they can't. Especially those with mixed Central Asian origin. But dark brown hair and eyes are still the dominant natural color for East Asians.
"In Australians of European ancestry, the percentage of eye colours are 45 percent blue-grey, 30 percent green-hazel and 25 percent brown. If you're considering non-European ancestry it is the almost completely brown eye colour."
We found that green is the most popular lens colour, with brown coming in a close second, despite it being one of the most common eye colours. Although blue and hazel are seen as the most attractive eye colours for men and women they are surprisingly the least popular.
Green eyes are the most rare eye color in the world. Only about 2 percent of people in the world have naturally green eyes. Green eyes are a genetic mutation that results in low levels of melanin, though more melanin than in blue eyes. Green eyes don't actually have any color.
A couple of years ago, scientist determined that BLUE EYES was a MUTATION that occurred around 6,000 years ago and it stems from A BLACK MALE AFRICAN ORIGIN. They report several archeological proofs puts this event around the BLACK SEA AREA.
Blond hair has also developed in other populations, although it is usually not as common, and can be found among natives of the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Fiji, among the Berbers of North Africa, and among some Asians.
Very dark brown hair, easily mistaken for black hair, can be found occasionally in parts of East Asia.
What color eyes do the Japanese have? Most Japanese people have dark brown eyes that are sometimes mistaken as black, while others have lighter brown eyes. Those who live closer to Russia's border have colored eyes that are a mix of blue, brown, and green.
While it's quite uncommon to see a Japanese person with blue eyes as previously noted, it does happen, especially in northern parts of Japan. You also see more people with hazel eyes in southwestern/Kyushu parts of Japan.
Blue eyes are extremely rare for Filipino ethnic individuals as well as other East Asians. The average Filipino has dark brown eyes.
In frontal view, Asians tend to have a taller, more-circular shaped orbit, whereas Caucasians tend to have a square-shaped orbit. In lateral view, Caucasians possess a more prominent superior rim and deeper lateral rim. In the 1980s, an oval face featuring big eyes with distinct parallel double eyelids (Fig.
While dark brown is definitely the most common eye color among Koreans, there are a few who deviate from the standard.