Warning: I know this may sound a bit racist but honestly have no better way to express it, it’s not my intent to sound racist or anything.
So I got teached in school the whole thing about Dominance and Recessivity of genes, how darker hair and eye colors are more common because they are “dominant”, while stuff such as blue eyes and blond hair are rarer because you need both of your parents to carry the “recessive” genes for them to express. However, following this theory, I noticed that there must be quite a lot of people with black skin but blonde hair and blue eyes, particularly African Americans, who for all I saw have on average like 1/5-1/4th european ancestry. Theorrtically, they could have the recessive genes and thus there must be even a small percentage of them with blue eyes and blonde hair, but you virtually don’t see this at all. I saw a few black people with blue eyes here and there but they are exceedingly rare, and most seem to be using lents or smth. Same applies to black skin and straight hair now that I think of, and even stuff like more european-like aquiline noses also seem non-existent even among blacks with significant european ancestry.
Why is this? Do the genes that determine eye and hair color (As well as hair texture) also determine skin color? Are they different but intrinsically related? Why do you never see black people with blue eyes or light hair, despite them theoretically being able to have them?
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Dark skin, dark hair, and dark eyes are all dark because of melanin. Various genes control melanin levels, and they tend to effect melanin levels in multiple parts of the body. That’s not to say that the right mix of alleles cant produce different results, but in general a mix of alleles that produces darker tones in skin produces them everywhere
Dominant and recessive genes, but look into the Melanesian people, they have what you’re looking for
Interesting counter observation
https://medium.com/history-street/the-fascinating-history-of-black-people-with-naturally-blonde-hair-c36b0b58d99e#:~:text=The%20Melanesians%20are%20the%20world's%20only%20natural%20black%20blondes&text=aturally%2C%20blonde%20hair%20is%20mostly,They%20are%20called%20%E2%80%9CMelanesians%E2%80%9D.