Here is the link http://www.unt.edu/rss/class/mike/5700/eyecoloralcohol.pdf
What they did was look at light and dark eyed people and compared how much alcohol they drank. They had a sample of male prisoners and a sample of women. They found that people with lighter color eyes, drank more alcohol.
So cool!!!
The researchers had to guess as to why...1. Past research has shown dark eyed people are more sensitive to drugs in hospitals...so they are probably more sensitive to alcohol as well....so they drink less.
2. Something about behavior and how blue eyed people tend to be more inhibited by new situations so they might drink to feel comfortable.
Either way, I think this is really cool...normally I am all about socializing and that biology doesn't determine much, but this is actually a really cool study and it shows how much our DNA is connected, and this is probably more about how hundreds of years ago that cultures with lighter colored eyes had more alcohol and while genes get mixed up, it is only so much. But I don't really study this stuff...I study society. It is still really really cool. Especially since I have blue eyes...not the more likely to abuse alcohol part, but the need more to get drunk part.
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