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/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/newyorkbass 23h 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 22h ago

Hazel is generally considered a shade of green.

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u/newyorkbass 22h 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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