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Originally Posted by wellard
Yeah I have heard that babies are all born with blue eyes too Bungleau. I don't know if it true or if so is it just for anglo - saxon race?
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I'm guessing its a more..regional thing. Because in nepal its said all babies are born with black eyes. lol (not that kind of black eye..but you know what I mean)
And with the colour change, there's several reasons I can think of that can explain this. The colour of the eye is basically pigment that the body produces (thus albino people don't have it because they're missing that gene- but their eyes appear red because of the colour of blood). So with the blue colour at birth and the changing of colour later- could mean that the pigment making process was delayed, or takes longer to do. Because from what I know children aren't completely developed till like 8-10. So that could be one? The base "blue" could be the recessive gene and the other colour may be the dominant. So When the pigment making begins, the dominant colour overtakes.
Another explanantion might be the appearance of both genes (this also happens quite often). So Say its blue and green, its possible that the child is born with blue but as he grows he starts showing alittle bit of both, and results in a blue/green colour. (or the highly unlikely BUT occured- having different eye colours in each eye)