First thought: "WTF!?"
(and it's still going through my head... xD)

Well something, SOMETHING must be pretty funky in how this happened... This is just way too weird.

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its cold down here fam ~

Hmm...thinks of what she'll put as her race whenever she takes tests and such

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well you might think age will bring about change. Sounds logical but i don't think change will be THAT drastic. I think the most baffeling part is actualy the eye colour...Blue eyes. Brown eye colour is a dominant gene, Blue eyes are recesive genes. Both parents have brown eyes. Its virtualy impossible for that outcome, unless its mutation 🤣

You've got it backwards. Two people with brown eyes can have a baby with blue eyes if both parents have the recessive blue gene. Two people with blue eyes cannot have a baby with brown eyes, as they obviously don't have the dominate brown gene.

That's why they both must have had at least one white ancestor somewhere. The kind that weren't documented...

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Two people with brown eyes can have a baby with blue eyes if both parents have the recessive blue gene. Two people with blue eyes cannot have a baby with brown eyes, as they obviously don't have the dominate brown gene.

That's why they both must have had at least one white ancestor somewhere. The kind that weren't documented...

Actually that's an over-simplification, because eye color is a lot more complicated than that - which would be how I ended up with eyes that are green with a brown ring around the iris, while one parent has blue eyes and the other has green eyes with no brown at all. It's certainly not common for two blue-eyed parents to have a brown-eyed child, but it can happen.

In this baby's case, for the difference in coloring to be so extreme, it does seem like a genetic mutation is more likely than a throwback, though.

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Usually these kinds of things happen in fiction, but to see that it's actually possible in real life is pretty amazing. 😃

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You guys haven't been doing your biology homework. It's by no means impossible for black parents to have a white baby and vice versa. It just happens to be rare. Yes, it is a mutation, every offspring that is not a clone of its parent(s) or a mix of nothing but its ancestors' genes is. Mutations in gametes happen all the time and that is why evolution works.
Just like you can win in roulette with just 1 chip. Just less unlikely than it not happening. It does not need many alleles to differ melanin levels, thus it does not need that much time in genepool for a complete overwrite in a characteristic. If the baby had goat horns, then it would be strange, since it doesn't exist in the DNA of apes by default. It would need years of mutation, since the other option to goat horns wouldn't be no horns but different horns, probably of a different tone and size.
Really, it is no alien. It just has lower melanin levels than the parents. Same goes for blue eyes. The less melanin in eyes, the less brown they have, the more blue they have. Mainly the reason why blue eyes usually come with pale hair, also caused by low melanin levels. Although it is not exclusively so. Melanin does not spread equally, but genes make hormones adjust it.

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I think it could work, but if it would be pretty cool if we can somehow evolve ourselves with wings and other "attachments". 😃

It is not impossible, but humans haven't been evolving for what 10000 years, because we all live on the same food and live in the same surroundings. Our genes have gotten lazy and we breed slow, thus making the frequency of fresh altered genes appearing rather slow too. We can alter our genes with science and probably get greedy and selfpwn ourselves. Evolution for the man has ran out of conditions and time and the only thing we hoard are new sicknesses when the bearers do not die due to medical science. The only grand mutation we will ever experience is aging. Though the human race probably dies, unless we are strong enough to survive the severe conditions of selfpwn and revert to a new stone age, living in smaller packs in wicked conditions, welcoming evolution back.

We are not immortal though and immortality is hard to reach. Aging is caused by faults in renewing tissue and if we can fix that and find a way to not die of eventual poisoning by oxygen radicals in our cells, we can reach semi-immortality. We will die of physical trauma eventually, like accidents, murders and junk food. We probably will not ever evolve even if we are immortal, since mutation majorly happens by breeding.

Is any other news source reporting this? It is The Sun after all.

hmm, i wouldn't be all too trusting of 'the sun' too...

anyway, as long as the family is fine with it, and the father's not questioning whether his wife has been getting around. the problem is the child might have to stand up to a bit of bullying in the future. i guess to be so white and blonde is just... weird - but possible?

Mutation possibly, but I don't think it needs any concern. It's a big find for genetic scientists and scholars, but as long as everyone in the family is happy, I'm fine with it.