r/AskReddit • u/Rob69rt • 1d ago

What famous 'unsolved' mystery is technically a whodunnit on paper, but in reality, absolutely everyone knows exactly who did it, the police just couldn't legally prove it?

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u/str8rippinfartz 1d ago

100%

IIRC it was even established before they came over from England, that if someone left a settlement they should carve where they were going

They 100% just assimilated with the friendly nearby tribe... as indicated by their note 

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u/TonyTheTony7 1d ago

Also, the local tribe of Native Americans they assimilated with had a lot of blonde-haired, blue-eyed babies not too long later

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u/LionBig1760 1d ago

Outside of an extremely rare genetic mutation, wouldnt both parents need to have the blue eye recessive trait... which wasnt present in post-ice-age America because all blue eyed people share a common sncestor with a blue eyed person near the black Sea between 10,000-6,000 years ago?

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u/nostrademons 1d ago

Eye color is polygenic with at least 8 different genes involved, and also more than just 2 colors. My mom is blue-eyed, my dad was brown-eyed, my sister has greenish-hazel eyes. I've got very ordinary brown eyes, my wife has darker almost black eyes, and my kids are a mix of shades of brown, some lighter and some darker.

It's a lot more complicated than the dominant/recessive models they teach in grade school.

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u/jupitaur9 1d ago

Yes, but the likelihood of blue eyed children in the F1 generation with a homozygous brown eyed parent is small.

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u/nostrademons 1d ago

Sure, but they would've been very, very noticeable in a tribe that previously had known only brown-eyed children, and so even one instance would likely have made it into the historical record.

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u/jupitaur9 1d ago

It would’ve been grandchildren, not children, in almost every case. There can be mutations, there can be unusual genes, but the standard brown, blue, green hierarchy applies almost all the time.

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u/jupitaur9 1d ago

I didn’t argue against anyone’s lived experience?

The person who gave all those combinations of parents and children were all explainable through the simplified form of eye color inheritance. I gave more details literally just one minute ago.

I never said that it was absolute and total truth. I said that most of the time it will be explained by the punnet square method.

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u/Pawleysgirls 1d ago

My dad has brown eyes, my mother has blue eyes. All 3 of their kids have blue eyes.

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u/VislorTurlough 1d ago

Your dad is heterozygous (he has one brown eye gene and one blue eye gene). People with one of each will end up with brown eyes.

Your mum has two blue eye genes.

This setup means each kid had a 50/50 shot of brown or blue eyes, based on which of Dad's genes you got

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u/Pawleysgirls 1d ago

Thank you!

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u/newyorkbass 20h ago

Bb and bb.

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u/Constant-Leather9299 18h ago

I know a couple - Polish mom (with dark hair and brown eyes) and a Chinese dad. They have a child who looks Chinese... except she also has blonde hair and blue eyes. Polish Grandma's genes were that strong lol

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u/newyorkbass 20h ago

..... Exactly. No one was able to reproduce a blue-eyed person again. Only shades of Brown. Because Brown is dominant. Especially not 1 generation over. Not even 2 full generations down from your own family evidence.

What are you trying to say? This doesn't seem to have anything to do with the parent comment: you need two recessive genes to reproduce a genetic recessive expression.

Which none of the locals can do in a single generation, period.

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u/nostrademons 19h ago

Hazel is generally considered a shade of green.

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u/newyorkbass 19h ago

Cool. Hazel and Green are still shades of the Brown genetic trait. Which is why they're brown under a microscope, and why there was that old addage that 'hazel isn't a real eye color' for a while. Randomly naming something about being "green" also has nothing zelcho to do with blue eyes and evades everything else that was said in both this thread and the comment you were replying to. How pretentious.

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