Twins one white one black

[bjshooter]

This story was in magazines awhile ago, twin girls this time, one black one white.

 

 

I saw these two in the shop where i work, they are absolutely lovely, really cute and totally identical, apart from the obvious.

[troyhark]

The father was dark skinned, the mother white.

The father is British and the mother half Nigerian according to the mother.

[*_ash_*]

Well then, that's over 60 pairs in this country alone .... two in a million really I suppose as they're twins Not what I'd call rare, exactly. Strictly speaking they're both mixed race children, not black and white.

 

Just to point out, as no one seems to have mentioned, they are identical twins, not just twins, which adds to the unlikelyhood.

 

The chances of identical twins being one black one white, is extremely rare.

 

ash

[troyhark]

Well then, that's over 60 pairs in this country alone .... two in a million really I suppose as they're twins Not what I'd call rare, exactly. Strictly speaking they're both mixed race children, not black and white.

To add to above post, that's one in a milion pairs of twins, not of total population.

[skippy]

they are identical twins,

That's crap, if you had 2 mini cars, one red and one yellow they would not be identical.

[alchemist]

I was also thinking that this was a meaning of the word identical to which I have been previously unaware.

[RichC]

Identical takes on a different meaning when talking about twins.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twins#Identical_twins

 

Note: "Monozygotic twins generally look alike."

[Bandylegs]

The term "identical twins" is used to denote twins which have developed from a single fertilized egg (as I understand it).

[pk014b7161]

this phenomenon is caused by the male moving about whilst on the job ,it lets the daylight in . or is that an old wives tale

[Plain Talker]

The term "identical twins" is used to denote twins which have developed from a single fertilized egg (as I understand it).

 

that's right, bandylegs.

 

In certain, extremely rare cases, you could actually have identical twins where one is a male, and the other a female, if there is a glitch in the genetic makeup of the female child.