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- Lagomorph42, on 10/12/2007, -12/+142"The odds of such a birth are about a million to one, experts said."
So I guess there are at least 6 to 7 thousand other cases exactly like this one. - ionbattle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+96That's going to be seriously annoying to explain to people when they grow up.
- nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -0/+86I'm pretty sure they meant a million to one given the prerequisite that the parents are of mixed ancestry.
- Valarauka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+45You've got that backwards. The brown eyes gene is dominant, the blue is recessive. Two brown-eyed parents can both be Bb (where B is brown and b is blue) - and the kid can get a b from each parent to become bb - blue-eyed.
The other way around hardly ever happens because two blue-eyed parents will both be bb - so there's no B to give.
Learn rudimentary genetics before you call ***** on others, please. - Vicken, on 10/12/2007, -14/+58They're so cute!
- KingCharles55, on 10/12/2007, -15/+48wow what absolutely beautiful children. they are so cute.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31In 15 years, these two will be in a sitcom, even money.
- alamandrax, on 10/12/2007, -10/+38brace yourself. the comments are coming. get your digg down power to maximum. ready? go!
- dracostimpy, on 10/12/2007, -8/+31Now I believe in miracles,
And a miracle has happened tonight...
doo doo doo doo doo doo... dooooo doooooo
But if you're thinkin of being my baby,
It don't matter if you're black or white.
hee hee hoo hoo (crotch grab) *twirl* - elpayo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Gregor Mendel FTW!
- NightRush, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24If they didn't come out at the say time, I'd say she got caught...
- h0aX, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22wasn't that woman on bangbus?
- CompIsMyRx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Soon, all people will be of "mixed races" and the world can move on.
- light50, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15My wife and I are brown eyed and our eldest has blue eyes.
- furplepig, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16"In 15 years, these two will be in a sitcom, even money."
Even more likely, they'll be in every biology textbook, right next to Mendel's peas. - daedalus779, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20she is kind of MILFY
- dose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I love the look on the guy...he's not buying it.
- Valarauka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Regardless of how many loci the trait may or may not have, your claim of impossibility is demonstrably false. I know several blue-eyed children of brown-eyed parents.
Edit: Oh, look, one just showed up right here on Digg, too. - collinong, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16I don't think the "black" baby got all black genes; she looks like a mixed race baby like her parents. The "white" baby did get all white genes. This should narrow the odds of this happening a bit, since only one of the babies would have to have received genes 100% from the white side. The reason people consider the "black" baby black is an artifact of our society that considers anybody that is not full-white to be black. This occurrence throws a wrench into that, though.
- Niffer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16In that last picture the father has this look on his face....
"Ain't no way these babies are mine." - nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10A little better analysis of the "million to one" estimate is here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=377839
- Valarauka, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Sure it can.. recessive genes cause all sorts of freaky stuff. This is just one particularly stunning example.
- ingoldsby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Seriously cute kids! I think it's amazing that stuff like that happens.
- hockendougal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Let the long term observational studies begin!
- jonesin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9huh?
- SteveDeGroof, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Any bets on how soon Benetton hires them for an ad campaign?
- nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8twins can have different fathers without the mother having "two uteruses". that's the stupidest suggestion I've heard.
- NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I see a new PSP ad comming out soon....
- hseikaly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7i'm actually really curious as to what happens when the twins grow up. seeing as they will grow up in the same way, with the same financial and social environment, I wonder how their individual appearance will affect their social status, their careers, and where they will each end up going. I'm not bringing up race to incite anything, but I just think it will be interesting to see how much of a factor their outside racial appearance would affect two people who are brought up in almost exactly the same way.
- chicbicyclist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I lol'ed.
- Paqza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"The odds of such a birth are about a million to one, experts said."
So I guess there are at least 6 to 7 thousand other cases exactly like this one.
Umm well not really, its a million to one for a mixed race mother to give birth to identical twins with one being black and the other being white. But you have to take into consideration that the odds of giving birth to identical twins is 500000 to 1...
Gregrich, I am pretty sure that it is impossible for a mixed race mother to give birth to identical twins with one being black and the other being white - they would not be identical, were that the case. We are discussing the same initial set of DNA, and that would pretty much make it a 0% chance of there being mixed race IDENTICAL twins. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12they probably meant one in a million twin babies born of mixed race parents. there aren't a lot of mixed race in the world, and there aren't a lot of twins, either.
- MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -0/+5Seriously annoying to explain, or a great tool for making people feel ignorant and awkward? Ahh, I'd have so much fun.
But you know, they whole family looks alike, and obviously the twins seem like exact replicas only different shades--if anything, the white kid will be the odd one out in the family (by appearance only).
I'd also like to see what they'd look like if the lighter one got a tan and if the darker one didn't get any sun. - Valarauka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Check out nepawoods' link just below; it explains the odds in more detail.
Basically: 100 to 1 chance of fraternal twins; and 100 to 1 chance for each one to be all-white or all-black. Hence (100)^3 to 1.
And yeah, this is given both parents are mixed-race. - Zique, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Michael Jackson, is that you?
- Junkey, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12Photoshop.
- nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Both parents have white mothers. Exactly half of each parents genes are from a white person. Each parent gives exactly half their genes to their child. So each parent could (and this is the unlikely part) give their child the half of their genes that they got from their mother (who was white).
- ZoTheGorilla, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6If we, as humans, paid more attention to our similiarities than our differences, we'd see that we are really more alike than different.
Skin color is determined by our geographical ancestors and really how much sun they got... an outside influence.
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There is ONE RACE... The HUMAN RACE. - PunkRampant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Ever since I learned about alleles and genes in biology, I wondered if this could happen. Proof of concept I guess. How cool.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Neither of the parents look as caucasian as the white twin. Can latent genetics really do this? Regardless, they are very cute!
- BridgetDS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3...that's because she's 19.
- charlietuna, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4He is definitely thinking "Am I raising another man's daughter?" Not for nothing, but the white(er) girl looks happier. Both cute though.
- rcomegys, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You're totally right. People do this with the hopes of getting on the front page, and creaming their pants at the thought of getting their username read on diggnation.
- Tiak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The odds are a million and one given parents with these two parent's genes. Really, they're probably a bit lower than a million to one, but it's hyperbole, a couple different genes on a couple different chromosomes determine pigment, and having the white baby with the matching genes from each parent is fairly rare. The black baby probably didn't have that low of a chance once fraternal twins were determined though, as traits like blond hair are recessive.
- f3l1x, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6*****... Adorable...
- Tiak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's possible, it just has very low odds. I mean, think about this in terms of sets of chromosomes, in someone of a mixed race, half their chromosomes are the equivalent of one race, and half are from the other. There is a low chance that the half the chromosomes they pass on will be identical to the chromosomes possessed by one of their parents, there is an even lower chance that this will happen for both parents, but there is still a chance, is there not?... It would pretty much be genetically the same as if each's white parent had a child with each other for the white baby, and probably more of a mix for the black baby. Of course, this is just a thought experiment, and only the genes relevant to pigment need be passed on, others (such as nose shape) still were passed to the white kid. That and she doesn't look like an albino, especially not a black one, as they tend to have rather distinctive, more blotchy skin.
- nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What "verdict of some unknown old fruit on an urban legends site" is it that you think people are taking as "the final test of reality"? Both parents are exactly half white, half black. Their children can be anything from completely white (blue eyed too) to completely black. It is possible, though unlikely, for one child to have only genes from her two white grandmothers, and the other to have only genes from her two black grandfathers.
- Sirocco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Halfros.
- admirabumblebee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3affair
- jg5985, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2
they could each carry the recessive gene -
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