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  2. Eye color - Wikipedia

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    Eye color. Eye color is a polygenic phenotypic trait determined by two factors: the pigmentation of the eye 's iris [1][2] and the frequency-dependence of the scattering of light by the turbid medium in the stroma of the iris. [3]: 9. In humans, the pigmentation of the iris varies from light brown to black, depending on the concentration of ...

  3. Evolution of the eye - Wikipedia

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    The human eye, showing the iris and pupil. In 1802, philosopher William Paley called it a miracle of " design." In 1859, Charles Darwin himself wrote in his Origin of Species, that the evolution of the eye by natural selection seemed at first glance "absurd in the highest possible degree". [3] However, he went on that despite the difficulty in ...

  4. Grey alien - Wikipedia

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    Grey aliens, also referred to as Zeta Reticulans, Roswell Greys or Greys, [a] are purported extraterrestrial beings. They are frequent subjects of close encounters and alien abduction claims. The details of such claims vary widely. That said, Greys are typically described as being human-like with small bodies, smooth, grey-colored skin ...

  5. Pre-modern conceptions of whiteness - Wikipedia

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    [62] [63] Athena is described as having blondish or brownish hair (xanthe (Ξανθή)) [64] and blue, green, or grey eyes. [ 65 ] [ 66 ] Contrarily male warriors like Odysseus were usually described as having brown or bronzed skin, unless attention was being brought to skin that was vulnerable to injury in battle.

  6. Auburn hair - Wikipedia

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    Auburn hair. Auburn hair is a human hair color, a variety of red hair, most commonly described as reddish - brown in color. Auburn hair ranges in shades from medium to dark. It can be found with a wide array of skin tones and eye colors. The chemical pigments that cause the coloration of auburn hair are frequently pheomelanin with high levels ...

  7. Color blindness - Wikipedia

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    Color blindness or color vision deficiency (CVD) is the decreased ability to see color or differences in color. [ 2 ] The severity of color blindness ranges from mostly unnoticeable to full absence of color perception. Color blindness is usually an inherited problem or variation in the functionality of one or more of the three classes of cone ...

  8. Eigengrau - Wikipedia

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    Eigengrau (German for "intrinsic gray"; pronounced [ˈʔaɪ̯gŋ̍ˌgʁaʊ̯] ⓘ), also called Eigenlicht (Dutch and German for "intrinsic light"), dark light, or brain gray, is the uniform dark gray background color that many people report seeing in the absence of light. The term Eigenlicht dates back to the nineteenth century, [1] and has ...

  9. Color - Wikipedia

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    Color (American English) or colour (British and Commonwealth English) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum. Though color is not an inherent property of matter, color perception is related to an object's light absorption, reflection, emission spectra, and interference. For most humans, colors are perceived in the ...