Kian and Remee Horder are healthy, rambunctious twin sisters, born in Britain last year. But to meet them is to get a surprise. Kian is what almost all of us would label as black, with chocolate-colored skin and curly black hair. Remee is blond and fair-skinned. Twins of different races? Can that be? They have the same parents and the same family tree. They developed together in their mother's womb and were born within minutes of each other. Their parents tell us they had no fertility treatments. No child was switched at birth in the hospital. It was just a case of nature offering a surprise. They may look like they're from a different family, but that's not how their father views his daughters. "I just can't understand why they're different, when, to me, they're not," said Remi Horder, their father. "They're just the same birth, mixed, biracial." Their mother, Kylee Hodgson, joined in saying, "I definitely didn't notice the color difference at first." But other people did — and the sisters quickly became darlings of the British news media. Another set of black-and-white twins surfaced just this week in Queensland, Australia; their pictures have commanded high prices in the world's tabloids. But ask geneticists, and they'll say they're not that impressed. Twins who appear to be of different races are rare, but they're far from impossible. And perhaps more important, some scientists said, they show how flimsy the concept of race has become in the modern world. "It's not that unusual because of the way genes are transmitted from parent to child," said Lee Silver, a Princeton University geneticist. The Human Genome Project, which deciphered the details of the DNA molecules that make us who we are, found that of the 25,000-35,000 genes that every human being has, only about 10 play a major role in determining skin color.
"It's not that unusual because of the way genes are transmitted from parent to child," said Lee Silver, a Princeton University geneticist. What he said.
Rare, yes. Except usually, in a case like that since the twins would be fraternal and not identical, the mama was more than likely getting busy with a man of a different race around the same time as she conceived the other child, because with frats, it is actually possible to have two different fathers. I doubt nature just happened to offer a surprise, I think mama was doing the deed with someone else around the same time! :H Sorry for barging in the UK forum, but I saw the twin thread, and well, I'm a mother of twins myself and I did a ton of reading up on twins while I was pregnant with them.
No offense intended to you personally Momma, but do you not think it's a bit arrogant to assume that scientists and humanity as a whole always knows the answer to everything? The universe is a mystery, there will always be things beyond our capacity to understand, even if we think we can conveniently pigeonhole something to make ourselves feel superior and safe. Frankly, i think it's one of those freak of nature things we'll never be able to prove or disprove. S'not like it matters one way or the other. Just my imho, like i said. Nothing personal intended. You're welcome to barge on into the UK thread anytime you like.
No offense taken, however, I'm still going to stick with my original thoughts on the subject, arrogant or not. I've done a lot, and I do mean a lot of research on twins, and I just don't believe that it was some kind of crazy thing mother nature threw at them. *shrugs* I could be wrong, but...I don't know, I just don't buy it! Anyway, again my apologies for juming onto the UK board, I just saw the twin thing and had to respond. I love anything to do with twins, being that I have a set of my own. Peace...
The most bizzare case i saw was a mexican women who had indentical twin = 1 was a jewish kid born circumcise and the other was a blond hair aryan born with intact penis . The woman was found dead several weeks later in Israel.
You are assuming that no tests were done to verify paternity... If dna tests show that the twins share the same set of parents, then your theory falls flat.
Here ye here ye. I think teenagers should be tried as adults in an adult court and sent to prison for more serious crimes. The government is looking at getting some hulk ships moored up so we can simply bung them in there for the good of the public. For lesser crimes, new rehabilitation support services should be created. We could give them a strict condition community order linked in with probation for five years. This does not stop them from reoffending but atleast the probation services and other bric and brac support are trying to prevent it. THis should be raised up as key subject to the House of Commons on November 13th.
