• w3dd1e
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    16 hours ago

    Mutant Genes:

    Red hair and brown eyes is unusual. Red hair is a recessive trait but brown eyes tend to be dominate. Hair color and eye color are one the same gene, MC1R. So if you have a dominate hair color you tend to have a dominate eye color, brown hair and brown eyes for example. People who have red hair and brown eyes have a mutated gene so the recessive red hair is attached to the dominate brown eyes.

    The same concept goes the other way, like people with green eyes and brown hair.

    Lots of people in my family have red hair/brown eyes because of this. It doesn’t skip around like it does in some families.

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      12 hours ago

      That’s me! I have dark brown hair and green eyes!

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      14 hours ago

      My wife has brown hair, brown eyes and an olive skin complexion. I’m your typical scandi with reddish-blonde hair, blue eyes, skin that burns like paper. Our child has brown eyes, red hair and olive skin that actually tans. It’s bizarre.

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      15 hours ago

      I have brown hair and brown eyes. My wife has blond hair and green gray eyes. We have a son with red hair and blue eyes. And yes he is my son. Genetics are weird.