Quote Originally Posted by Ctah_Lu View Post
Very interesting, I didnt know that human eyes can change color.
I never said they change color.

From the web: "Hazel eyes are difficult to define because their appearance changes with surrounding colors and lighting. Like blue and green eyes, hazel eyes are as reflective as a pond. If the sky is blue, the water appears to be blue; if the sky is overcast, the water appears to be gray or brown. Captured in photographs, without the benefit of the natural scattering of light, hazel eyes often appear brown or dark gray"

To complicate matters, even though my eyes are defined as "hazel" I don't think they look anything like "typical" hazel eyes. You have to look very closely to see any brown at all and there's very little. Just saying that sometimes they give the overall impression that they are blue, other times, olive green. Most of the time, they look blue, but a sort of greyed out blue, not piercing bright blue. They look like this:



My mothers eyes are that same color of blue, but no brown specs, and her I.D. says they are blue. (Dads are brown) Just the very few traces of brown specs makes mine hazel, I guess, but they don't look hazel to me. I've even gotten grief from the cops over that one. They didn't think I was who I said I am.

Apparently, the "blue" gene my mother carries is NOT recessive as most blue eyes are. Combined with the brown eyes my dad has, I ended up having both colors in my eye. Anyway, I guess where this falls into the discussion of snakes is that some genes for color are codominant. Meaning, genes for two different colors can both have an effect on the outer appearance of the offspring and so the offspring will have a combination of both.