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In humans, phenotypically, eye color falls into one of these basic categories -brown, blue or green. Brown eyes are the most common (due to their dominant nature), followed by blue and then green.

We see higher frequencies of light as blue or violet, lower frequencies of light are seen as red and orange. Green light is in the middle. Our eyes only detect three colours: red, green and blue.