• MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    C’mon man… Learn genetics. Seriously. Recessive genes can ABSOLUTELY express themselves in a child from even one parent being a carrier regardless of how the parents’ genes express. In addition, random mutations can and DO produce weird things.

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      5 months ago

      100% this. My wife and I are both white, but our daughter was born black. Crazy how those genetics work

    • isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I’m also pretty sure he qualifies for the “started blond but turned brown” camp anyways. It’s so sun bleached in that photo lol

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      5 months ago

      Also, it’s a movie and these people are actors with no meaningful genetic relationship between them.

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      5 months ago

      I had very light blond hair as a child. Both of my parents have dark brown hair. My hair is now very dark brown.

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        5 months ago

        Yeah, I was light brown and blonde as a kid, black now, I have one son with blonde hair, one with black, My dad commented once that my blonde son looks just like I did as a kid, and my black haired son looks just like I do now. Also two blonde daughters, the oldest in her teens, her hair is darker in spots, but still some blonde. My youngest had a lot of red mixed in as well, but that’s all gone by now.

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      5 months ago

      In fact a similar thing happened in my family but my parents have darkening hair, and my siblings have minimally darkening blonde and brown hair. There is even some red mixed in somewhere.