The Buton Tribe in Indonesia with sparkling blue eyes...
Due to a rare genetic disorder called "Waardenburg Syndrome"...
Those crystal blue eyes are due to a rare genetic disorder called Waardenburg syndrome, which can lead to malformation of the airways, or thinner airways...
The Waardenburg syndrome causes congenital hearing loss and pigmentation deficiencies, which can include bright blue eyes (or one blue eye and one brown eye), a white forelock, or patches of light skin…
The syndrome is caused by mutations in any of several genes that affect the division and migration of neural crest cells during embryonic development, and also leads to some disease of the intestine...
Other animals like cats, horses, and rats can get it too (blue eyed white cats typically have Waardenburg syndrome and are deaf).
Waardenburg is also a binary condition, you either have it or you don’t (or you can be carrier), whereas racial traits are usually more a large groups of sliding scales which is why children typically look like a mix of their parents rather than one or the other.
This is the photographer’s Instagram profile if you are interested…
More about this amazing genetic mutation…
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This is sad but the blue crystal eyes are to kill for. I once met an older gentleman who said he was a Navy Seabee when he was young. His light blue eyes were so captivating that I could not stop staring at them. I was with my husband at the time but I swear I would have married him in a split second!
Speaking of genetic mutations, I attended a creation science seminar recently (ICR - Institute for Creation Research,) and one of the scientists pointed out that Homo Sapiens experiences about 300 new genetic mutations every generation. Most of these mutations are not favorable to our species. Estimate is that humankind has a 10,000-year lifespan. Therefore, if you accept the Biblical narrative and believe that God created us about 6,000 years ago, we only have about 4,000 years left as we accumulate these mutations and decline steadily in physical/psychological/intellectual health, longevity, and fertility, until the human race simply dies out, or they figure out a way to prevent the mutations or to repair our genome.