Thursday, July 17th, 2008
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Southern Charm,
Western Passion
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Re: Twins with different skin colour born in Germany
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Originally Posted by Marulus
The surprise consists, I guess, in a very high improbability of having two twins of so different skin colour, born out of racially very different parents, instead of being something in between, like mulattoes. That genes get combined in that way is a rarity of sorts.
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Had the parents been close or relatively close to each other, that might have been a bit of a surprise. But the genetic distances between a Negrid female and a Europid male are too long to consider the outcome a surprise.
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