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- greeley, on 10/12/2007, -80/+12I didn't think this could happen but it did.
- edilclyde, on 10/12/2007, -93/+17the husband doesn't seem to be either white or black....hmmmm yeah she's a player
- alamandrax, on 10/12/2007, -10/+38brace yourself. the comments are coming. get your digg down power to maximum. ready? go!
- zacharychaos, on 10/12/2007, -56/+12it seems to me that 9 months ago something really kinky was going on...
- Vicken, on 10/12/2007, -14/+58They're so cute!
- Philbert, on 10/12/2007, -14/+8I saw this on Dateline when the kids were first born. Of course the kids looked different but I recognized the parents in the photo.
- themastersb, on 10/12/2007, -25/+4Skunks!
- rholloway, on 10/12/2007, -15/+4looks like the dingo didn't eat her baby after all.
- masgrada, on 10/12/2007, -17/+6She must have gone to one hell of a party... I think I've seen her in a video of sorts.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31In 15 years, these two will be in a sitcom, even money.
- Junkey, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12Photoshop.
- 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. - 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.
- mrdoolittle119, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1one is albino
- honey54, on 10/12/2007, -42/+2http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...icle_id=411953
Another one in a million.- KingCharles55, on 10/12/2007, -15/+48wow what absolutely beautiful children. they are so cute.
- 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.- weijie90, on 10/12/2007, -25/+4A million in to one births of twins or single babies?
- 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.
- ROFLance, on 10/12/2007, -15/+1You beat me to it.. I was just about to post that, until I decided to read the comments. That seems to happen to me a lot.
- superpotential, 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.
- 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. - 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.
- demonio, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4what would the chances be if the parents weren't mixed race? lol dig me down
- gregrich, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1"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... - 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. - artofwar420, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2They're so cute.
- unklematt, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2One.. serious.. hospital.. screw up...
- 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
- CountC, on 10/12/2007, -27/+7http://z.about.com/d/urbanlegends/1/0/W/E/pic19814.jpg
Black: yo yo sup..jus chillin
White: uhh..I'm white?- openyoureyes17, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3lol i'm apparently the only one who thinks that is hilarious
- NightRush, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24If they didn't come out at the say time, I'd say she got caught...
- 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."
- Niffer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16In that last picture the father has this look on his face....
- ionbattle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+96That's going to be seriously annoying to explain to people when they grow up.
- d3c0yn4m3l355, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Well if they know.. I got a friend who is white except for his hair its a bit odd. Though I see him rather often apperently his mother is from Zimbabe, and rather black. These things just happen I guess, though pretty cool such happens as well for twins. I think people will be more interested in the how or the chance this happens then anything else.
- Valarauka, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Your friend sounds like he might be an albino.
- starquake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think they will be relatively famous. At least where they live. I know quadruplets and almost everyone still remembers having read it in the newspaper when they where born almost 30 years ago.
- 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.
- vsujohn2, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2Ok, is it just me or does one look Indian and the other look Eastern European?
Thats a little more different than just plain old black and white...- chicbicyclist, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Exactly. The genes probably expressed themselves at both extremes for both babies. They are so cute together though and I could see advertising potential for these two!
- hockendougal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Let the long term observational studies begin!
- 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.
- thesekeys, on 10/12/2007, -12/+6oh yea because our society dubbs Asians as black too.
- theseus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No. No, it doesn't.
- 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*- counterplex, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1How appropriate :) Hilarious!
- ingoldsby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Seriously cute kids! I think it's amazing that stuff like that happens.
- elpayo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Gregor Mendel FTW!
- rumor, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2mattel has got to be ecstatic about this.
- jonesin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9huh?
- danmed, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5The chances of anything coming from mars....."are about a million to one, experts said."
- Surefoot, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5Go ahead and dig me down, but what's with all these year old articles?
Last month they were all from Jan 2006. So this month we'll be seeing year old articles from Feb 2006?- 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.
- pentak, 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!
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2No, it can't, and yeah, they're cute.
- Valarauka, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Sure it can.. recessive genes cause all sorts of freaky stuff. This is just one particularly stunning example.
- 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).
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -38/+1I call *****. Two brown-eyed parents CAN NOT have a blue-eyed child. It's not "a million to one", it's a "doesn't happen".
- 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. - shurraco, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1You beat me to it Val :)
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -19/+2No, it's impossible. It isn't a case of simple mendelian genetics with one gene, like the simplified examples everyone learns in school; eye color isn't a single-locus trait. The same is true of skin color.
It's not a case of mendelian inheritance of genes. If the father is really the father, the kid is a partial albino, with a defective gene for melanin production. - light50, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15My wife and I are brown eyed and our eldest has blue eyes.
- 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. - eyebits, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mendelian Inheritance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendelian_inheritance
http://web.mit.edu/esgbio/www/mg/crosses.html#crosses
http://web.mit.edu/esgbio/www/mg/linkage.html - jg5985, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2
they could each carry the recessive gene - 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.
- 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.
- jesterace, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2"The odds of such a birth are about a million to one, experts said."
I'm no expert, but i think most people here could have told you that one. - Zique, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Michael Jackson, is that you?
- kixxster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4now, if they had been conjoined, that would have been really amazing. and probably impossible
- daedalus779, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20she is kind of MILFY
- BridgetDS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3...that's because she's 19.
- tekk2k, on 10/12/2007, -13/+4Also consider the possibility that the mother has two uteruses. Which means that the "twins" could have different fathers and still be born at the same time. Maybe there is more to this story than they are reporting to the public. ^_^
- ray901, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2yes, imply that she is a whore why don't you
- 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.
- wobitnobby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The chance of a woman having multiple uteri is greater than the chance of the genetic recombination events which did indeed lead to these babies. As part of Gyn training I hear of a few patients like that each year. Some have two completely distinct uteri that both lead into the same vagina with separate cervices, sometimes there is a septum in the vagina. Sometimes one cervix is much smaller than the other, nearly vestigial. Since the embryonic development of the uterus starts from the center of the abdomen and moves down toward the genitals, and the vagina develops entirely separately from the outside and moves in to meet the uterus, it's possible to be quite abnormal inside and quite average outside.
However, this would have been noted during her antenatal visits, as she is from a developed country that uses ultrasound.
- h0aX, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22wasn't that woman on bangbus?
- chicbicyclist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I lol'ed.
- CompIsMyRx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Soon, all people will be of "mixed races" and the world can move on.
- dose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I love the look on the guy...he's not buying it.
- 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.
- flyneye, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2I don't understand the willingness of so many people to put faith in the verdict of some unknown old fruit on an urban legends site as the final test of reality.
The white childs blue eyes give me doubt as the the authenticity of this being anything but a public service media whoring.
While we should all put down our rocks and sticks and hold hands and sing "give peace a chance"I also think cultural,physical and psychological differences will always keep races at odds and no amount of good will or tolerance will ever change that.- 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.
- oirvine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lots of babies are born with blue eyes that later change color. I was blued eyed until they changed to green at around 6 mouths.
- gnomon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Forget the blue eyes changing into green, I think the 6 mouths are much more interesting.
- SteveDeGroof, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Any bets on how soon Benetton hires them for an ad campaign?
- sanitycheck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1it's true -
http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/mixedtwins.asp - f3l1x, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6*****... Adorable...
- kronzdigg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2ITS CALLED Superfecundation!
I wouldn't want to be the man in the picture....honey you got splanin to do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfecundation - Toast1185, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Worth a thousand words?? We'll I'll start with one
babies
anyone else wanna chip in?- admirabumblebee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3affair
- BridgetDS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1cuckold
- 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.
- BLKMGK, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Ya, a very good point although almost sad to wonder. Hopefully both will do well but I'll sure bet the Mom will get sick of the whole explaining thing. I know someone with fraternal twins who has to explain all the time why one is a boy and the other a girl. Now imagine that multiplied in this case by color. Then there's all the ignorant folks who will say suuure he's the Dad with a sly look. No fun at all but some pretty cute kids!
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Cute!
That's it. - SnottsdaleAz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1..freakin' Adorable!
- JimGardner1973, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2How absolutely COOL is that?!?!!
- k6adams, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Is the white baby missing an arm?
- Freetime000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dad looks a little uncertain about this situation.
- qwertydvorak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0George Jefferson would have some choice words about this. (on the show his neighbors had one white kid and one black one, hilarity ensued)
- audiowizard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Yeah but ahhh...isn't it on an Urban Legends & Folklore website??? Hence making it a phony story???
- BrutusCirrus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You're adopted!
- runeasgar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Hopefully they'll grow up without a hint of racism.
Who knows, they could parent an entire new generation of racism-free people!
... *sigh* or not. - miggie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Guys just so that you know this is the 3rd time this has happen. If you don't believe me look it up in the 80's issues of Jet. Both couples were in the American Navy station in England oddly enough. The first set were boys the second set were girls they should be in their teens by now.
- michaelfoley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I knew twins like this growing up in Thunder Beach, Ontario. No one believes me when I talk about them. At least now I can point at this article and support my argument.
- cryscket, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2What's even more odd is when a mother has twins by two different fathers who are of different races.
AND YES, it *has* happened. - 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.
Everything that is used to distance human is Learned: Language, culture, religion
There is ONE RACE... The HUMAN RACE.- SpaceDreamer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Races are nothing to be ashamed of.
we don't have to pretend that they don't exist. It won't solve racism. - theseus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Nope, there are physiological differences that go beyond skin color. Brain physiology, for instance. Africans happen to have a smaller frontal lobe and less brain density overall. Isn't that interesting?
- SpaceDreamer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Races are nothing to be ashamed of.
- ontheplains, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0if scientists say that the probability of this happening are one in a million, do we have 3,000 sets of twins like this in america?
- iSAIDcheese, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It might mean that.... if America had a population of 3 billion!! :-)
- NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I see a new PSP ad comming out soon....
- talkativemime, on 10/12/2007, -10/+0nothing but photoshop
- orangekid13, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2she screwed a white guy the same day
j/k. smile you tightass -
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