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EYES This week Tidbits focuses on a few facts about the incredible complexity and design of the organs that give us the amazing ability of sight. • There are more than two million working parts in the human eye. It weighs just under an ounce and is about an inch across. Just over 16.5% of (Answers on page 16) eyeball is exposed. The eyes begin to develop ADVERTISING PROOF the in the womb just two weeks after conception.
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• Eye color is the result of a variety of pigments in the iris, a two-layer tissue that allows light into the eye and controls the size of your pupil. There are three main pigments in the iris – melanin, pheomelanin, and eumelanin. Melanin is a yellow-brown pigment, pheomelanin is red-orange, and eumelanin, a black-brown hue. • Those with brown eyes have melanin in both layers of the iris, while people with lighter eyes have it in just the back layer. Pheomelanin is the source of color for green and hazel eyes, most common in those of Irish and Scottish descent. The darkest pigment, eumelanin, is found in the eyes of Africans, Asians, and South Americans. • Brown is the most common eye color, with more than half of the world’s population having brown eyes. Green eyes are the rarest, just 2% of the world. In the U.S., brown eyes account for 45%, blue eyes for 27%, hazel for 18%, and green eyes at 9%. Another 1% have another color, such as amber or violet. A rare condition known as heterochromia occurs in people who have two different eyeMON., colors. JAN. 1
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