What is far more bizarre is that one of Padra's brothers has "dark hair from his wetlander side".
His only "wetlander side" is Rand via Tigraine (so to speak as Rand is half-Aiel by blood, not a pure wetlander). Tigraine is a blonde (her brother is a redhead). More importantly Rand is a redhead, so he has to carry a pair of recessive genes.
I don't think it's even possible short of a genetic anomaly for a blonde like Aviendha and a redhead like Rand to produce a child with dark hair and colouring as Brown is dominant over both. If Tigraine was carrier of one brown gene, she'd have had brown hair. It sounds like Brandon wasn't careful with the genetics in that chapter, or worse he messed up and was thinking of Tam as the "wetlander side", forgetting as he wrote that Tam isn't Rand's father and Rand's father, not mother was Aiel (and that in the TR where blondes and red hair are totally unknown it's most unlikely Tam would carry a recessive gene for blonde hair anyway...)
His only "wetlander side" is Rand via Tigraine (so to speak as Rand is half-Aiel by blood, not a pure wetlander). Tigraine is a blonde (her brother is a redhead). More importantly Rand is a redhead, so he has to carry a pair of recessive genes.
I don't think it's even possible short of a genetic anomaly for a blonde like Aviendha and a redhead like Rand to produce a child with dark hair and colouring as Brown is dominant over both. If Tigraine was carrier of one brown gene, she'd have had brown hair. It sounds like Brandon wasn't careful with the genetics in that chapter, or worse he messed up and was thinking of Tam as the "wetlander side", forgetting as he wrote that Tam isn't Rand's father and Rand's father, not mother was Aiel (and that in the TR where blondes and red hair are totally unknown it's most unlikely Tam would carry a recessive gene for blonde hair anyway...)
This is the most annoying thing about these books. I could overlook the stylistic variations if his poor grasp of the material was not so obvious that you can't be sure which is the case for any number of things.
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Genetic channeling and the Rhuidean columns
- 24/04/2012 08:48:40 PM
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- 24/04/2012 11:43:53 PM
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- 25/04/2012 05:29:45 AM
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The hair...
- 25/04/2012 05:14:52 PM
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Yeah, that was bothering me too.
- 25/04/2012 07:12:31 PM
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Yup ... Suppose the Moridin body switch theory would explain the dark hair 
- 26/04/2012 12:28:42 AM
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- 26/04/2012 12:28:42 AM
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That's the biggest problem with B-Sand...
- 26/04/2012 01:44:40 AM
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Re: Genetic channeling and the Rhuidean columns
- 25/04/2012 05:57:02 AM
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Yes, I wasn't claiming this was a plot hole or anything...
- 25/04/2012 06:06:53 AM
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Agreed that it is a rather strange twist and seems very sudden to happen within a generation
- 25/04/2012 11:15:09 AM
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- 25/04/2012 04:11:55 PM
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Well the Sharans seem to know as they breed channelers and kill the male offspring
- 26/04/2012 12:26:39 AM
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- 26/04/2012 01:42:19 AM
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I don't think the trait is that simple as the four box diagram with the peas in a bio textbook
- 26/04/2012 01:38:32 AM
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I don't think the trait is that simple as the four box diagram with the peas in a bio textbook
- 26/04/2012 01:39:05 AM
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Re: I don't think the trait is that simple as the four box diagram with the peas in a bio textbook
- 26/04/2012 02:17:17 AM
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True, but the odds of Channelers having children with the ability are vastly higher
- 26/04/2012 10:48:00 AM
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But in that very revelation, Nynaeve claims that "mother following daughter was rare"
- 27/04/2012 03:24:21 AM
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Re: I don't think the trait is that simple as the four box diagram with the peas in a bio textbook
- 26/04/2012 01:30:54 PM
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I believe there is a quote that the soul is only part of what determines the Channelers strength
- 27/04/2012 10:31:22 AM
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