Black hair vs blonde hair?

Question

Black hair vs Blonde hair?

Hey all, say that two people have 5 kids.

The father has black hair, tan/olive skin, and dark brown eyes.

The mother has blond hair, white/pale skin, and light blue eyes.

Just assume that both people come from backgrounds that match their features (i.e., they both has ancestors who look exactly like them).

What COULD their kids look like? Their 5 kids?

Answer 1

It all depends on your ancestry.  For example, there are dark haired Europeaners who have blond haired babies.  So, for example, if Tom Cruise (dark hair) married a woman of european ancestry (blonde or dark haired), they'd have a greater chance of producing blonde hair babies.  If Tom Cruise married a spanish woman or asian  or black woman, chances are the babies will have brown and dark brown hair, respectively.  Their features will be a mix of both parents.

Answer 2

From a non-biological background, I should handle answering with considerable care. Memory says that eye colour is simplest genetically. Dark eyes come from a dominant gene. Unless father can find a fairly close relation somewhere up the family tree and reported to have blue eyes, all five children should have dark eyes.

I think hair colour is considered also to be not very complicated. I have seen it mentioned that red hair is a bit of a wild card. Otherwise if there is no one of Father's Family tree with fair hair, his children should also be dark haired - all of them.

Really and truly from the outside for this part, my reading suggests that skin is important enough so that there may be lots of genes with some voice in controlling it. Certainly by the second generation I would expect a range of skin colours. Again I think strong pigmentation is dominant, but I have an impression that with parents as described all of the children will have dark skins, but but not as dark as their dad.

Finally I would emphasise that there is almost certainly better researched information to be had if you do your homework on the web.

Answer 3

In that situation, kids usually take after the darker parent. It would be possible to have a mixture or look like the mum but would be uncommon

Answer 4

I'm thinking maybe a mixture of a dark/light brown, but i think their childrens hair would be black, it's all in biology.