08-07-2007, 01:10 PM
Can anybody give me any compelling reasons to explain something unusual that has occured in my family's genetic pool? My eldest daughter caused us quite a shock when she started to grow out of her baby stage. She has very dark brown hair but not black, very very green eyes, fair skin - as fair as a caucasian european though she tans easily in the sun - and lots of freckles! She has a high nose, a square jaw and round eyes! I have had people give me very strange looks as if to wonder whether this is truly my husbands child! Our second child was born with black hair and a fairish/tea-coloured complexion, but she also has round green eyes.
My husband and I are both of medium complexion and brown eyed, he is Bengali, but i am not very sure of my precise ancestory as most of my family except for my father died during partition, i do remember him telling me that his mother was very very fair but i thought he was being favourable because she is his mother. So could this be a genetic trait? If so, where on earth has it come from?
My husband and I are both of medium complexion and brown eyed, he is Bengali, but i am not very sure of my precise ancestory as most of my family except for my father died during partition, i do remember him telling me that his mother was very very fair but i thought he was being favourable because she is his mother. So could this be a genetic trait? If so, where on earth has it come from?