I LOVE this thread. In VV2, I was breeding the blondes together, the redheads separately, and then the dark haired ones. I love the women with long straight hair or the curls. Now I know what to do with my future games. BTW, in VV3 when I mated two blondes and got a black haired child and asked if it was a _bug_, this was LadyCFII's response: "That's a normal occurrence for Virtual Villagers, ever since inherited appearance was introduced in VV2. Occasionally you will get an "unexpected" result. That is welcomed by people who don't want to see certain traits vanish from the tribe, and is disliked by people who are trying, for example, to achieve an all-blonde tribe."