Long believed to be a uniquely human trait crucial for communication, visible white sclera—the "whites of the eye"—occur more commonly in chimpanzees and other mammals than previously reported, finds ...

Homogeneously depigmented sclerae have long been proposed to be uniquely human—an adaptation to enable cooperative behaviour by facilitating interpersonal coordination through gaze following. However, ...

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A car backfires, and your shoulders jump. A shadow moves, and your eyes fly open before your brain catches up. That dramatic flash of white sclera around widened eyes feels automatic because it is.

Pigmentation patterns of the visible part of the eyeball, encompassing the iris and portions of the sclera, have been discussed to be linked to social cognition in primates. The cooperative eye ...

What is the significance of the sclera of our eyes? A question which researchers have been interested in for some time now. Recently a research team led by a comparative psychologist has succeeded in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The white part of our eyes is known as the sclera. Blue, green, amber: Someone’s eye color immediately attracts our attention. But ...

Whether blue, green, hazel, or brown, eye colour is one of the very first characteristics that people will observe in another individual. However, there is one characteristic of the eyes that goes ...