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Parents have Twins with contrasting skin colors

Posted by Aaron Burns on January 4th, 2009

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Here’s a really interesting story from England. A black man and his white wife produced twins with different skin colors. Its not uncommon for a black couple to have both dark and light skinned kids but this is something I’ve never seen before. As a person of mixed heredity I’ve always found stories like this fascinating. My father is black and my mother is hispanic with a light complexion, so rather than being one or the other I came out as an exact combination, coffee with cream if you will.

As bigotry beings to die off with the eldest generation, people’s genetics will continue to mix. In 500 years everyone will look like me with asian eyes. You can look down in Brazil for an approximation of this.

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