Black and white twins | the Daily Mail — This should be sociologically interesting as they grow up. Apparently both parents themselves had one white parent and one black parent.
When Kylie Hodgson gave birth to twin daughters by caesarean section, she was just relieved that they had arrived safely.
It was only when the midwife handed them over for her to hold that she noticed the difference between them.
Remee, who weighed 5lb 15oz, was blonde and fair skinned. Her sister Kian, born a minute later weighing 6lb, was black.
found by Jonn Morgan
Considering that they obviously aren’t identical twins, thats not all that surprising an occurance.
Though the white girl is seriously white, which makes it visually striking.
They didn’t leave Remee in the oven long enough.
Sociologically interesting? LIke they would let out any studies that suggested a difference between races?
I wonder if the explanation could be that she had sex with two guys and two egg cells were fertilized each one by sperm from one of the men. Any thoughts?
Well its a possibilty of genetics. Each of the parent’s parent (twins’ grandparents) who gave their children a white skin gene. Since the dark skin is dominant, the children (the twins’ parents) would look dark skinned although each has a gene for white and one gene for dark skin. Then when they had sex, their were two eggs released in the mother and one sperm fertized each. One egg received a gene for dark skin, and the other gene received doesn’t matter whether its white or dark; and the other egg received two white skin genes. This would explain two things about the twins:
1) They are fraternal twins (twins as a result of two different eggs) so it explains why they don’t look alike (basically not true look-alike twins).
2) One has at least one gene for dark skin, making her dark skinned, and the other received two white genes making her white skinned.
Furthermore for possibly many generations before can possess a white skinned gene, but all be hidden by the dominant dark skin gene, so therefore the previous generation can all look dark skinned, but have the possibility of white children. Only now did it show up with the 1/4 possibility combination white.
Here is a table to show the possible combination:
Remember, dark skin is dominant, and white is recessive (dominant gene will show up over the other the recessive gene).
B-Black skin gene
W-White skin gene
B | W
B BB | BW
W WB| WW
From the table, Black-Black (BB), White-Black (WB), and Black-White (BW) will all result in dark skin children.
Only White-White (WW) combination will result in white children.
I don’t give a crap about the genetics involved or all of the opinions of you doubters.. This is one of the most remarkable and beautiful things I have ever seen. As usual, something that could be seen as a lesson in tolerance and the beauty of diversity goes generally unappreciated.
Flame on, I won’t be here to read it.
Sorry ranron, it’s a little more complicated than that. I suggest reading the whole story. It’s heartwarming.
“The odds against of a mixed race couple having twins of dramatically different colour are a million to one.
Skin colour is believed to be determined by up to seven different genes working together. ”
… and Joe, chill man. It IS a beautiful thing. Just think, they could have gave birth to a Muslim and a Catholic.
Amazing… as a regular ole’ fraternal twin (me and my sister…)…
Rock ON!
“You mean I’m gonna stay this color?”
In a mixed-race family, it happens all the time. My sister’s twins split the genes in a similar fashion.
Classic example of mixed race kids turning out _really_ cute.
We had neighbors a few years ago (dad black, mom white) who have the cutest and brightest kids–fraternal triplets.
I seem to remember a case of black and white twins a number of years ago but, in that case, it was two different fathers.
So can she claim to be black on any forms she fills out?
You’ve got to be kidding! No one would dare ask your ethnic background or skin colour on any form. It’s irrelevant, and it’s against the law.
>No one would dare ask your ethnic background or skin colour on any >form. It’s irrelevant, and it’s against the law.
You mean except for the census, and just about every scholarship and college admissions application?
I guess thats a US flaw. I’ve never had to indicate my skin colour or ethnicity in Canada.
U.S. Flaw? Huh? Institutional rascism is everywhere, suggest you drive through a Canadian Indian Reservation to see yours. So JimR, chill man.
This is an article about something that happened in the UK… and notice the language from the Daily Mail, you can be “fair skinned” or “black”. None of those people look “black” to me!
Hi. I have had a baby seven months ago and she is white. Dad is black no mixed background and I am white with no mixed background. Had anyone ever heard of this?