Black parents and not-so black child?

Question

Could parents who are naturally as black as Africans produce a child who is not so black? I have seen many like this! Does the environment or climate of the country the child was conceived and born in have anything to do with it?

Answer 1

Uhhhh... yeah. Black people come in many different shades of brown. Its always been like that, and it always will be. Its called biology and genetics.

Answer 2

No the climate does not have anything to do with the changing of skin color. It would take generations before such a change would be noticeable from the environment alone. The reason that the parents can be so dark or light and then the child comes out the opposite is because that parent must have the opposite in them. Some may not know it but it is there and can show up generations later. Check it out more in different history periods like the high yellows of the french quarters and so on. I hope that helps a little.

Answer 3

The genes for dark skin are dominant or at least co-dominant. So yes, just as two brown-eyed parents can have a blue-eyed baby, two dark-skinned parents can have a pale-skinned baby. But it requires both parents to be heterocygotic, i.e. to carry the pale-skin allel without expressing it. This probably means that they most both have at least one recent European ancestor.

Since skin color depends on many genes, it is unlikely that two entirely black parents will get an entirely pale baby. It is more likely that two intermdiate parents get a child that is somewhat paler than both parents.

While two blue-eyed parents cannot have a brown-eyed child, the same could happen with skin color to some extent. Suppose the dark-skin alleles of ten genes for skin color are called ABC... while those for light skin are abc... Now if the father is
AaBbCcDdEeeffgghhiijj - intermediate color
and the mother is
aabbccddeeFfGgHhIiJj - intermediate color
they could, in theory, have two children, one of which is
AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJj - black
and the other child could be
aabbccddeeeeffgghhiijj - white

Answer 4

No, that just means that one of the two parent's parents were either light skinned or the were white. As long as the child looks like one of them, only lighter, then, who would care? And, it does not have anything to do with the fact the environment had anything to do with it.

Answer 5

I'm black, and there is every shade of the rainbow within my (extended) family. My mother is very light-skinned, with naturally straight hair. My father is very dark-skinned with kinky hair, so my siblings and I range all over the map from being light-skinned with straight hair, to being dark-skinned with wavy hair. Quite a few of my other family members live in Louisiana and are Creole. A couple of my cousins have naturally green eyes. My maternal grandfather, while black, had very prominent Native American features. My maternal grandmother was black, but people always mistook her for being Caucasian.

You have to consider that, during slavery, the rape of black female slaves was tragic, but common. As such, physical characteristics within the black race took on changes (from generation to generation) that wouldn't have otherwise existed had it not been for these rapes.

Answer 6

Yes its not that uncommon to have 2 black parents have a baby that looks white, and vice versa having 2 white parents having a baby that look black.

Answer 7

I'm not really sure what you mean....

Well if they have mixed ancestry, who knows what will happen? Anything could.

My aunt is darkskinned and my uncle is medium-brown, but my cousin Jayla has eyes that change colors, a skin-tone a little lighter than peanut butter and blondish-light brown hair. But we have mixed ancestry so there was a chance that would happen.

Answer 8

yeah wut they said and their mother can be black and father white so they may come out much lighter than their mother or sometimes their child can come out albino that is they are so light they look white and may have red hair and babies are usually lighter when born and alot of BLACK people stay out in the sun TOO much and get black as heck!

Answer 9

it has to do with genetics. having lighter skin can be in both parents genes, just the dark dominated it. then the choiild wod be light. email me if this doesnt make senc\se to u.

Answer 10

No, that those don't have anything to do with it. It's genetics. Your DNA follows you, even if you plant that seed in someone else, and you never know how it's going to work out.