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2 brown eyed people could have a blue eyed baby...it depends on if they both had brown eyes but carry the recessive blue gene...There are many degree's of brown eyes...Deep colored brown such as with African Americans its harder to get blue eyes...they would have to have some white or asian blood in their ancestry. Brown eyes are dominate, but could be hetero zygot or homozygot. Genetics is fascinating.

In that case with brown eyed children if they had 4 children I would be homozygous, carrying only brown eye genes, 2 of the offspring would be brown eyed...but carry the recessive blue eyed gene and 1 would be blue eyed...pure recessive gene... Biology 101 in college course on the genetics of passing along certain characterics like eye color...

I had a wild turkey fly into my turkey pen where I was raising Royal Palm Turkeys....All white with a black edge on each feather. A specific breed of turkey..Had to put on heavy gloves to separate the two toms fighting. It was a bloody mess...I took the wild one and put him in a room in the chicken coop where I had a Royal Palm tom (too young to breed) and a female royal Palm....All offspring looked like wild turkeys but carried the recessive gene for the royal palm turkey..But in breeding them back some were wild in color but carried the recessive gene for white feathers with black edges, some were pure royal palm and others came out with cocoa brown feathers like nestles cocoa...looked like neither parent. Brown eyed people can have blue eyed children. Depends on wherether the eye colored gene was homozygote or heterozygot..

Hope this is not too confusing...