To wonder at genetics

[TwittleBee]

Does anyone else wonder where you or another family member got their genetics?

I sometimes wonder about our son; where did he get his skin tone, hair and eye colour.

He is the only one of us to have straight hair with brown eyes and olive skin. He is almost all one colour, sort of this dark gold.

Meanwhile the rest of us are all curly haired, green/blue eyes with freckles with pale skin (including extended family on both sides)

The one thing my son and I do share is our eyes, we both have epicanthal folds and I always wonder where we got those as no one in my family has them.

My siblings look nothing a like - but they both look like me.

My kids eveyone recognised them as siblings they look so a like - even stangers passing them on the street will ask if they are related to sibling they know.

My 2 kids look nothing like each other of their parents.

My son is the double of my mother's brother. My baby granddaughter and I at one year old could be the same person.

Why should it be impossible? The genetics of eye colour are very complex.

I have a cat that catnip does not effect.

I've had cats before and I used to foster cats and she is the fist to just look at it as if to say,"What's that?"

My siblings all have the tall gene, missed me sadly! Separately, we don't look alike but when together, there are some subtle similarities. I'm dark haired, blue eyes, small and petite, my brothers are stocky and well over 6 feet. My sisters are fair, tall and willowy. We can't see where the tall gene came from. We had a family photo taken at Christmas and the difference is height between me and my siblings is striking!

I've been researching our family history for years and all the military records say the men in our family were around 5"4". I guess this was normal height back then.

All my nieces and nephews are tall too.

Our Dad was short. Mum was 5'9".

My DC don't really look alike. Both tall though. One blue eyed and fair, other dark brown eyes and dark, almost black hair.

DGC - I can see lots of family members in them going back generations. Fascinating stuff.

One thing we all have in common though is being left handed.

I'm an adoptee so yes I do often wonder about my genetics.

I knew someone like your DD. He had an Indian ancestor 2 or 3 generations back.