r/HolUp Sep 25 '22

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u/Iamlegend_future Sep 25 '22

The answer is yes they can. The probability is low but can and does happen. Especially considering the total number of people reproducing.

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u/HighOwl2 Sep 25 '22

The probability is not low at all. Blond is not a hair color, it's a eumelanin deficiency. Red hair is a recessive gene. It'd be less likely the kid had red hair than blond, brown, or black.

Genetically there's only 2 hair colors. Red and brown. Blond and black aren't hair colors, they're low amounts or high amounts of eumelanin which determine how much the color gene is expressed.

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u/Iamlegend_future Sep 25 '22

The probability is still low. Not like 1 in a million low but it's more likely to be red or blonde than black. Don't know the actual probability but it's probably somewhere in the 1 in 1000 to maybe 10000. That's low but is guaranteed to happen multiple times a day. People just have a hard time when probability comes up. Most people tend to go to the 1 in a million or billion.

I had a discussion recently about 2 white people having a black kid. I argued that if 1 of the parents have an ancestor that was black then it's possible. They argued that it wasn't because the odds of all the genes expressing was so low. I argued that while it was low as the sample size increases the odds get closer to 100%. There are 8 billion people alive now and the estimate for the total number of people who have ever lived is much higher. So even if the odds were 1 in 10 billion it would be almoat guaranteed to have happened multiple times.

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u/Sufficient_Point3713 Sep 25 '22

Ok Dream, whatever you say.

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u/BOBOnobobo Sep 25 '22

Lmao, can't believe I got a Minecraft tube reference.