My late husband was very ginger with clear ligenht blue (very recessive) eyes. a lot of hair on his body, and a very mesomorph body, also a receeding chin that looked better with a beard, and a very hard head, variously hit with a sashweight and a cinderblock by robbers. At 5’11” and 200 lbs, he was sparring partner for an olympic heavyweight wrestling contender. He had a high pain tollerance. He was hit by a car while crossing a street, had severe bruises on thigh and calves and his head struck the windshield. He refused help and walked home 14 blocks (”Because my wife will take care of me a lot faster than the ER”) and I picked 50 shards of glass out of his forehead with tweezers, As a redhead he was not a bully, but was severely bullied. The old men in his small town would say to some other kid, “I’ll give you a quarter if you can beat that redhead.” I think the high pain threshhold may be why Scotsmen were such fierce warriors. I know he was fierce. Perhaps explosive temper is a Neanderthal trait. My father who was Celtic had a more whiplash tember, not explosive. Husband never tanned, but burned easily.
Another genetic anomoly puzzled me. He had those clear light blue very recessive eyes and I have hazel with green, brown and blue traces. Both our sons had dark pure brown eyes from birth. I suspected it might be a somewhat recessive Asian brown gene mixed with my husband’s even more recessive blue eye gene. My brother with dark hair and somewhat swarthy skin told me he has brown eyes. I now remember my mother telling me he was born with a skin pigment on his lower back labeled a “Mongolian spot,” So I guess my sons dark brown eyes come from my 6 to 9% far, far, eastern genetic heritage.
Wouldn't the Asian gene for brown eyes be dominant rather than recessive?
I realize that it isn't "cut-and-dried" when it comes to eye color - but isn't the gene for brown irises dominant?
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