Do multiracial people with natural blonde hair exist?

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30 Apr 2016, 5:07 pm

^ I'm curious if you can find an image on Google of someone who looked similar to what you described.



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30 Apr 2016, 6:11 pm

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^ I'm curious if you can find an image on Google of someone who looked similar to what you described.


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30 Apr 2016, 6:22 pm

A lot of Aborigines and Melanesians have naturally blond hair and dark skin, yet that gene mutation is unrelated to European blond

Edit: I forgot to say, South African Coloured people have amazingly beautiful blue eyes.

P.S. Coloured is PC term there, it's an ethnic label for people of diverse ethnic origin who possess ancestry from various Khoisan and Bantu ethnic groups of southern Africa and Europe and Asia.



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30 Apr 2016, 10:03 pm

First generation?

Supposed to be impossible.

Subsequent generations?

Anything is possible.

If a 100 diploid blond people married 100 diploid black haired people (of another race say) then the next generation (the first mixed race generation) of this community would all be dark haired because they would all be haploid (one gene blonde, and one gene black haired). And since blonde is recessive they would all be dark haired presumably.

But the third generation (the second mixed race generation) produced by pairings within the second generation would be one fourth diploid black haired, one half haploid black and blonde, and one forth diploid blonde. If blonde is recessive that would mean 3/4 of the second mixed generation would be black haired, and one forth would be blonde.



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07 May 2016, 9:46 am

DevilKisses wrote:
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K_Kelly wrote:
^ I'm curious if you can find an image on Google of someone who looked similar to what you described.



Her facial features look very European to me. Slightly portruding eyes, somewhat fuller Lips, light brown skin. That's about it though.

OT: Yes, I know quite a few. In fact, I am relatively light haired myself.



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07 May 2016, 9:58 am

Yes absolutely, in fact a mixed race couple can have a child that doesn't look mixed at all. Even a black couple can have a white child (not through albinism, but through genetic prevalence). There was a case of twins one black one white.

India/Afghanistan have people who have fair hair blue eyes. This may be due to Alexander the Great.



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09 May 2016, 10:00 am

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On that note there are actually black people from a certain island that all have naturally blond hair. I don't remember what island it is but I remember seeing it on youtube one day and then thought of my niece xD


They aren't "black," as in of sub-Saharan African descent. They aren't closely related to black Africans at all. They are an entirely different race more closely related to Australian aboriginals and Papua New Guineans. The gene for blond hair is an entirely different one from the one that causes blond hair in Europeans.


https://youtu.be/eoG8PrIp0Cs

you mean this?