Is there a link between blue eyes and the risk of alcoholism? — -- There's a new potential clue in the ongoing effort to understand the genetic links to alcoholism: eye color. People with lighter ...

University of Ferrara researchers in Italy have examined how European skin, eye and hair pigmentation evolved over the past 45,000 years. Findings indicate that lighter pigmentation traits emerged ...

Most prehistoric Europeans had dark skin, hair and eyes well into the Iron Age, about 3,000 years ago, new research finds. Scientists found that the genes that cause lighter skin, hair and eyes ...

Have you ever wondered why some people have lighter eyes than others? Differences in iris coloration have traditionally been explained as a result of sexual selection, but a recent study led by ...

Your baby could start with blue eyes and be completely different by age 1. The first photos of your newborn might capture their sweet baby blues peeking out from under sleepy lids. But by their first ...

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