Blue eyes may not be as common as brown, but many people have them. But few have eyes with the intensity of Sofer’s. The actor recently sat down with Maurice Benard on his State of Mind podcast.

And in fact, that was the point made by Joe Hudson of Carthage, TX: ‘You were absolutely right about no one having blue eyes 10,000 years ago. There was no one here 10,000 years ago.

Blue eyes have long been associated with movie star good looks, but why they make hearts throb is open to conjecture. An estimated 17% of the world's population has blue eyes.

When babies are born, their eyes may sometimes appear blue early on, while their melanin is still forming. Their eye color may then darken as they develop. “As a baby develops, more melanin ...