UK twins turn heads: One is white, the other black

CNN ^ | 03/04/2015 | Michael Pearson

[celmak]

Here's a pair of twins no one will have trouble telling apart: One is white, and one is black.

[celmak]

There are other examples of families having twins with different skin shades. These families illustrate that we really are only one race

[I cannot think of a name]

Possibly.

However the more likely answer:

Superfecundation describes a situation where the eggs are fertilized by sperm from separate incidences of sexual intercourse. In a case where a woman has sex with different partners, the twins could have different fathers. The appropriate term to describe this situation is heteropaternal superfecundation.

[longfellow]

Is one evil?

[SaveFerris]

Yes, most likely.

[manc]

I have heard and read the same.

This woman could have been with two different guys in the same night and where superfecundation occurred. Of course the media would rather look at this as a great thing and never mention if she had been with different guys.

[doorgunner69]

Superfecundation describes a situation where the eggs are fertilized by sperm from separate incidences of sexual intercourse.

Bingo!

I think the Mrs. has some explaining to do.........

[Tired of Taxes]

There’s another story like this one with the twins from the same father:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/mixedtwins.asp

[Roman_War_Criminal]

LOL...and nobody has performed a DNA test on them to this date?

[WakeUpAndVote]

[celmak]

However the more likely answer:

I very much doubt that this one has your "more likely answer".

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1103391/Mixed-race-couple-birth-black-white-twins--second-time.html

I have offered this data for my position (that we are of one race), could you provide some data to support your position please.

[TruBluKentuckian]

For a second I though this article was going to be about basketball.

[celmak]

See post 7 as well.

[TexasCajun]

Thanks to a rare quirk of nature, Lucy is the alabaster-skinned redhead, and Maria has their part-Jamaican mother's dark skin and hair.

Now stop calling me a racist Whitey! ...call me a racist Alabaster!

[Pelham]

While that’s an interesting possibility the article does say that the mother is bi-racial. Occam’s Razor would point toward the mother’s genetics being the source rather than superfecundation.

[GraceG]

"The girls were born to a white father and a biracial mom in 1997"

Seems to be a walking talking example of as punnett square.

They are simply fraternal twins with one inhereting their mom's dominant genes from her carribean ancestor, and thwe other one receiving the genes from their mom's white ancestor.

[Tired of Taxes]

It’s interesting how people jump to another conclusion.

There are many examples of twins that look different. That doesn’t mean they have different fathers. Siblings from the same parents don’t always look alike.

There are also examples of brown-eyed babies born to blue-eyed parents. And those babies passed the paternity test.

[buwaya]

The dark one is prettier

[henkster]

The pups in the litter don’t always look the same.

[Safetgiver]

Racist.

[T-Bird45]

Ginger every time...