nippi
msg:3136516 | 6:42 am on Oct 27, 2006 (gmt 0) |
Um, not really that odd. I am mixed race, african/german with a white partner. We both have dark brown eyes, he is.... white. 1st child White. and i mean white with freckles and blue eyes. my mother is white with blue eyes, i must have a blue eyed recessive gene, as must my partner, for our child to have blue eyes. 2nd child. Coloured. - very dark skin, clearly got a fro, and has the telltale blue bum of an african child. Dark eyes to the point of blackness, and the solid chalk white teeth of an african. They are different sexes, if twins, would have been the same as the example given. I do remember another such "rare" example, where it turned out the different eggs, had been fertilised by different men.... its possible... hehe
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rocknbil
msg:3137375 | 7:02 pm on Oct 27, 2006 (gmt 0) |
I think the rarity is that they were fraternal twins.
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oneguy
msg:3137524 | 9:22 pm on Oct 27, 2006 (gmt 0) |
It could be a case of heteropaternal superfecundation. I think that was talked about on this board not too long ago.
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httpwebwitch
msg:3138695 | 8:11 am on Oct 29, 2006 (gmt 0) |
| heteropaternal superfecundation |
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was that the thread where we were betting if Brett could rank for the term "heteropaternal superfecundation"?
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oneguy
msg:3139523 | 9:55 am on Oct 30, 2006 (gmt 0) |
lol. I thought people tried to avoid ranking for that.
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Quadrille
msg:3139996 | 5:01 pm on Oct 30, 2006 (gmt 0) |
| I think the rarity is that they were fraternal twins. |
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Not rare - not really unusual. Twins are either identical - from the same ovum, or not; non-identical twins can be as different as any other pair of siblings.
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nakulgoyal
msg:3154367 | 4:53 pm on Nov 12, 2006 (gmt 0) |
I am myself a father of Twins, Identical Boys. I wished one of them was a girl, and that would have been perfect, but doctors told me that was rare. This one amazes me :)
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Liane
msg:3156067 | 11:31 am on Nov 14, 2006 (gmt 0) |
Whatever the cause and no matter how rare, they are both as cute as babies can get. Really good looking kids!
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topr8
msg:3156121 | 12:43 pm on Nov 14, 2006 (gmt 0) |
hmmm, here's the same doctor making the same quote in a different case ... [ktvu.com...]
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