The second most common eye color, it is usually attributed with people from the Baltic Sea area (Northern Europe). In many cultures
blue eyes are considered more beautiful than other colors, but many brown eyed people disagree. This may be explained by the following.
It is generally considered a recessive trait, its persistance in European countries is attributed to
blue-eyed people finding
blue eyes more attractive than other colors.
Blue eyes are much less common than brown, and much more common than
green. Talking world population wise, brown eyes are common everywhere,
blue are only in high percentages in Norhtern Europe and the "colonies" (Canada, the United States, Australia), and green is only present in large numbers in Iceland.
