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

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

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

Yeah, it’s entirely possible for a child of two brown-haired parents to have blonde or even red hair.

For one thing, blonde hair tends to get darker as you get older, and so a lot of people who were born with blonde hair can end up with dirty blonde, light brown or even dark brown hair. This can mask the fact that they technically have the genetics for blonde hair.

Another factor is that blonde hair is a recessive gene, which (if I remember my genetics correctly) means that not everyone who has the gene will actually gets blonde hair because they need two copies of it instead of one; something which can get further confused by whether you’re born with XX, XY, or some other combination of chromosomes (I think, if I remember correctly, that some genes are more likely to express themselves with XY chromosomes or vice versa, not sure if that’s true for hair color). So you can have a family with brown hair, but if the genetics line up just right, you can get a blonde-haired kid (if I understand correctly, this is also true for red hair).

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.

Also for people who grow up in sunny places and move away.

Can confirm. Was blonde until I was around 6 or 7 when it started to darken.

They must have skipped yellow-pea/green-pea day in high school Biology.

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There are MANY explanations before sun bleaching. … though +1 for the Bleach reference.

Have you seen his acting career? Dude has experienced more deaths than a red shirt extra.

Its the opposite, parents with blue eyes can only pass on blue genes. But also everything we learned in school about genetics is a simplification. Theres a whole spectrum of eye color hues.

Generally darker is seems more dominant so a good rule Is a child is unlikely to have darker features then the parents.

Not true, genetics can just do weird shit

You probably reversed something you learned a long time ago. It’s impossible for two blue eyed parents to have a brown eyed child unless there’s a random mutation, which I guess can happen, but is incredibly rare.

TIL I cheated on my wife when she had… wait a second. /s

That’s not true at all. Blue eyes needs two recessive genes where Brown eyes only need one recessive gene. So you can have parents where both have brown eyes but they both have the dominant gene for brown eyes and the recessive gene for blue eyes. Then if both recessive genes are passed on to a child they will have blue eyes.

Of course there’s a few more complications to this as human eyes aren’t predicated on one gene, but it’s a good enough simplification.

Eh, you’re close, just backwards - if both parents have blue eyes, the child is (more-or-less) guaranteed to have blue eyes.

I have blue eyes, and my wife has brown eyes. Our daughter has blue eyes. We also have a son with brown eyes.

Recessive genes work that way.

Bb x bb

____B___b
b___Bb__bb
b___Bb__bb

The odds of a blue eyed person having two brown eyed parents is 25%.

No, the odds of two heterozygous brown eyed parents having a blue-eyed child is 25%. I don’t think these statements mean the same thing.

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