Blue eyed parents -> Brown eyed child

[ultimatebob]

Odds are your mom slept with Alkemyst

Hey now... Even Trident's mom has standards 🙂

 

[OutHouse]

This is high school science for you guys... Just use Google. We aren't a search engine.

yea this is 10th grade biology but damned if I remember the details of it.

 

[waggy]

anything other than brown eyes is a failed attempt to make a brown eye

in a few 100 years, only brown eyes will be left

i just read that everyone would be blue eyes in an article.

 

[cronos]

Can't remember; they stopped delivering 40 years ago.

How old are you know? 😀

 

[zephyrprime]

Although there is a slim chance, infidelity is by far the most likely explanation statistically speaking.

 

[TridenT]

Although there is a slim chance, infidelity is by far the most likely explanation statistically speaking.

Statistically speaking, I doubt it.

 

[alkemyst]

Yeah, but that's not absolutely true. That's why I want the odds.

There's plenty of cases where people have had blue eyed parents and a non-blue eyed child. I was hoping for numbers.

Should we include the odds the material one fucked the mailman?

 

[Anarchist420]

mendellian genetic theory is bunk because no one can look more like their father than their mother... the mother's DNA always carries more weight

 

[MrPickins]

So, your wife screwed around a little. Get over it.

Trident? Wife?

Are you familiar with the old robot saying "does not compute"? 😀

 

[BladeVenom]

Statistically speaking, I doubt it.

Look at infidelity statistics. About one in three women commit adultery.

 

[Leyawiin]

Look at infidelity statistics. About one in three women commit adultery.

Yeah, given the relatively minute chance of bl/bl having brown screwing around is the way more likely cause.

 

[TridenT]

Look at infidelity statistics. About one in three women commit adultery.

Have committed adultery at least once. Different than carrying that child to term while still in a relationship.

 

[debian0001]

Interesting little eye-color calculator:

http://genetics.thetech.org/online-exhibits/what-color-eyes-will-your-children-have

Generally, if both parents have blue eyes the child will absolutely have blue eyes - even if both have one brown eyed parent.

My mom has blue eyes and dad has brown eyes and I have brown eyes.

 

[postmortemIA]

trident is the child, for ones that are slow here.

 

[Leyawiin]

My mom has blue eyes and dad has brown eyes and I have brown eyes.

What I was saying is that two blue-eyed people almost always will have a blue-eyed child, even if those two blue-eyed people each have one brown eyed parent.

In your situation if your dad has no blue-eyed ancestors its pretty much a given that you will be brown-eyed. If he does, its can go either way with your eye color.

 

[dank69]

What I was saying is that two blue-eyed people almost always will have a blue-eyed child, even if those two blue-eyed people each have one brown eyed parent.

In your situation if your dad has no blue-eyed ancestors its pretty much a given that you will be brown-eyed. If he does, its can go either way with your eye color.

Yup, basically if Trident's parents both have blue eyes there is a >99% chance Alkemyst is his father and <1% chance one of Trident's parents suffered multiple major blows to the skull. Those look to be the only possibilities.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Yes, you were adopted.

 

[xgsound]

What is the probability? Anyone have a hard number or paper to back it up? (Some kind of survey, maybe?)

Don't forget this old saying. "Everyone knows who their mother is, but no one knows who their father is."

Jim

 

[BladeVenom]

Another possibility is babies switched at birth. Hospitals are known for making mistakes.

 

[TridenT]

Guys, I'm actually the son of Batman.

Batman's eye color doesn't actually matter in this case since you can still conceive a brown eyed child from two blue eyed parents.

 

[gorcorps]

Don't forget this old saying. "Everyone knows who their mother is, but no one knows who their father is."

Jim

That saying must have came to be before they had dumpsters

 

[SP33Demon]

Punnett square.

 

[dank69]

Guys, I'm actually the son of Batman.

Batman's eye color doesn't actually matter in this case since you can still conceive a brown eyed child from two blue eyed parents.

You're right and science is wrong.

 

[Crotulus]

Lol, this thread hits close to home for me. My wife and I both have dark brown hair and eyes. Our two year old however is blonde and very blue eyed. These traits came from our mothers. We do hear the mail/milk man jokes quite often 🙂

 

[TridenT]

You're right and science is wrong.

You know that science is actually on my side, right? :thumbsup: But hey, you know... keep thinking you know something. 😉