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Jamesy
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10 Mar 2024, 8:42 am

I know this couple and one of there sons has blue/grey eyes. The mother has brown eyes and the father a mixture of green/brown (if you want to call it ‘hazel’)

Do you think it’s unusual that there has son has blueish looking eyes?



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10 Mar 2024, 8:51 am

not at all. The combination of recessive genes was bound to come up eventually.



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10 Mar 2024, 8:57 am

DanielW wrote:
not at all. The combination or recessive genes was bound to come up eventually.



If you look Kate middelton and prince William there eldest son has dark brown eyes. William has blue eyes and Kate (my blood relative) has green eyes.



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10 Mar 2024, 9:59 am

The eye colour of offspring isn't like mixing the paint colours of the parents eyes.

It is to do with genes, as Daniel mentioned above.


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10 Mar 2024, 10:46 am

^ This.

My parents both had brown eyes, as do my siblings - but I have blue-grey eyes.


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