Blonde hair, blue eyes, white skin is a recessive trait, that means in most cases, presented with another option, the other option is dominant and the person takes on those characteristics.
Which is why in most cases you will note when a white person pairs off with a darker person, the child ussually looks darker then the white parent.
Of course its entirely possible (though a little less likely) for a child to receive two recessive copies of a trait from both parents, leading to blonde and blue eyes and such, especially when both parents have these reccessive traits in the family.
Its interesting to note that even light skinned asians have more in common with black people then white I think, I cant remember it entirely but I saw on TV somewhere, or perhaps read it, that white folk had a unique mutation for their skin pigmentation, so basically while asians had a lighter form of the same genetic code for skin pigmentation that blacks had, europeans had a different mutation of it.
Meh, I was a whizz at biology and stuff but, you probably wanna consult a dedicated employed geneticist/student about it.
I've tried to inform my ladeh that in all likely hood our children will look fairly asian, at the least, they wont be blond or blue eyed, as far as I know there are no blondes in my family, especially not near family.
Though its entirely possible for the blonde trait and blue eye trait to remain hidden for entire generations.
Also has anyone noticed that if it does occur, blnode hair and brown or dark eyes are downright rare?.
I wanted green eyes myself but I got lumped with a reddish brown, kinda like a fox.
My hair is just a dark brown, kinda boring really, though i do have that "eat tons and not get fat" gene.
I'm also known to be quite warm (body heat wise not emotionally
) which is okay in winter but it kills me in a warm summer.
