A picture is worth a thousand words. This one is probably worth a million. A pair of twin sisters - one black, the other white - born to a British couple who both had mixed-race parents. You may have seen this picture before, but is this a real and not a hoax?
Email example contributed by Stacey B., 1 March 2006:
Subject: AMAZING TWINS…WOW!A mixed-race British mom gave birth to twins recently - one of each.
No, not a boy and a girl. Two girls - one black, the other white.
The odds of such a birth are about a million to one, experts said.
(Photo credit: Gary Roberts)
The preceding images, all credited in online news stories to freelance photographer Gary Roberts, are authentic, as are the subjects, twins Kian and Remee Hodgson of Nottingham, England.
According to a February 21, 2006 article in the London Daily Mail, Kian, who is dark-skinned and dark-haired, and Remee, who is light-skinned and fair-haired, were born in April 2005 to Kylie and Remi Hodgson, who themselves were born to mixed-race parents.
While very rare, the phenomenon is not unknown, though it does entail a very particular combination of circumstances at the moment of conception. First, both parents must be of mixed race. Second, the twins must be fraternal (each conceived from a separate egg fertilized by separate sperm) as opposed to identical (both conceived from a single egg and sperm). Third, each sperm and egg must carry the genes for a particular skin color (i.e., black/black or white/white).
The odds against it are indeed a million to one.
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