Do all light eyed people descend from Europe? Do people in America who have light eyes descend from europe?

Answer 1

For the most part, yes, BUT with so many people of different ethnic groups intermarrying, this statement is less and less true as time passes by,

Answer 2

I actually think that started in Scandinavia and other cold climates. The way that I believe it worked is this, Warmer climates would have the dark skinned, dark haired people and the colder climates had the lighter ones. I think it may have evolved over thousands of years. The sun had something to do with it. (like pigmentation) This is just a hypothetical theory.

My grandfather was Sicilian, and he was dark eyed and tanned quickly. My dad was French my mother Italian. My grandmother on my mother's side from Calabria. She had green eyes, so do I. But my dad has blue eyes and my mom brown. You get the genes not necessarily from your parents, at least not all of them.

Answer 3

What does that mean "less and less true"? It is still true! In order to get the light eyes into the gene pool there had to be at least one European ancestor regardless of intermarrying (sometimes marriage was not even involved). Thus the person with light eyes is descended from a European-- albeit not directly.

Answer 4

There are a few freak light eyed folks from outside europe, and definitely some in the middle east, that I know of.

Answer 5

it's hard to say if light eyed people are all descendants of europeans. since most of the world was colonized by europeans at one time, it's ahrd for us, now, to tell where specific genes like light eyes came from.

i'm puerto rican and i have green eyes, but, spain colonized puerto rico, adn spain's in europe. so light eyes is probably a european feature.