I just wanted to know what your opinions are on this. I am a light skinned latina with medium brown eyes. My whole family; mom, brother, grandpa, grandma, aunts, and uncles are all light complected except for two who have more of a tan complexion. They all have/had either medium brown, hazel or blue eyes. My father was also light complected with hazel/green eyes. According to my mom his family were also light (I never met them). Now my husband is white, mostly German but according to his father, his grandmother (husband's) had native American in her (could be half) I realize many Americans claim Native American ancestry but my father in law says that he is positive that it is true in his family. Okay we have a daughter with very fair skin, greyish-blue eyes, brown hair with copper highlights. To my surprise our second child, a boy, has a dark complexion, very dark brown eyes (they look black unless you look real close then you will see they are really just a very dark brown) and black hair (not surprised on the hair color because I have black hair). So my son's skin color and eye color is like no one in my or husband's family. He is even darker than my mom's brother and sister who I said in the beginning had tan complexions (they both have medium brown eyes though). I really do not know were my son got his coloring from. I know recessive genes but my question is: Did our son inherit his coloring from both, me and my husband's, recessive genes? Sorry if this is a dumb question but I truly don't know. Could my son have his coloring from only my recessive genes (I assume it comes from me since I am hispanic) or is it like two brown haired parents have to each have the recessive genes for red hair to have a red headed child type of thing? Thanks for your opinions.
