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Most likely the child will have dark hair since brown/black hair is dominant. You never really know though. I know a couple where the man is black and the wife is white with brown hair and their daughters have white/blonde hair with blue eyes. Seems pretty unusual.
Yeah, it depends on how the genes play out since the genes for hair color are not binary. When one parent is very blonde and the other very dark, the kids are usually somewhere along a spectrum in the middle.
My brother-in-law is extremely blonde even as a middle-aged adult. We suspect he has a form of albinism. His wife is Romanian and has very dark brown, almost black, hair. Their daughter has light brown hair fading to blondish at the ends, and their son has solid medium brown hair.
Eye color genes tend to be more predictable. My niece and nephew both have dark brown eyes like their mom, not blue eyes like their dad. They must both have a recessive blue gene, but the gene that displays is the brown one.
As a kid I knew two full sisters - one with pale skin, blue/blonde, and the other with olive skin brown/black. You'd have hardly known they were related, their colouring was so incredibly different. Their parents, as far as I remember, both had brown hair.
How we look is complicated, genetics-wise.
My husband is Scandinavian in heritage, and is blonde/blue (like his whole family). My family is mostly from Ireland and Scotland and I'm auburn/green. Our kid has the same colour hair as her dad's family, but my green eyes.
I have blond hair and my husband has dark brown. Our 2 boys had very light blond hair as children and now have dark brown hair as adults. Our daughter had light brown hair as a child and still has that color. (They are all in their 40's now.)
As a kid I knew two full sisters - one with pale skin, blue/blonde, and the other with olive skin brown/black. You'd have hardly known they were related, their colouring was so incredibly different. Their parents, as far as I remember, both had brown hair.
I know a family like that. Both parents are dark-haired, dark-eyed, olive-skinned. Two of their kids have the same coloring. The third has very pale skin and almost translucent blonde hair. She has the same facial features as the others, just a totally different coloring. I, and a doctor friend of mine who also knows this family, believe she has a form of albinism but we have never asked about that.
I know a family like that. Both parents are dark-haired, dark-eyed, olive-skinned. Two of their kids have the same coloring. The third has very pale skin and almost translucent blonde hair. She has the same facial features as the others, just a totally different coloring. I, and a doctor friend of mine who also knows this family, believe she has a form of albinism but we have never asked about that.
Maybe there is just a recessive blonde gene. One of my sisters was blonde up until junior high and turned very dark with hair and complexion. Her husband had light brown hair and green eyes and their son was blonde up until junior high. Now he is medium brown.
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