Black Parents, Blond-Blue-Eyed Baby

[3113]

From here:

THE stunned black dad of a newborn, WHITE, baby girl declared yesterday — "I'm sure she's my kid ... I just don't know why she's BLONDE."
British Nmachi Ihegboro has amazed genetics experts who say the little girl is NOT an albino.

Also, no, neither parent is of mixed race.

Here's an explaination.

Okay everyone, Sing Along Time!

 

[CharleyH]

From here:

Also, no, neither parent is of mixed race.

Here's an explaination.

Okay everyone, Sing Along Time!

Well, I'm not at all shocked. I am surprised that this is the first time I've heard of it in the news, albeit The Sun isn't exactly reliable news. In any case, I would think that it would be pretty hard to find two black people (or white people, or Asians) in this day and age without some interracial mix in their genealogy (whether they know it or not), so it makes sense to me that they might have a child of a different colour.

As for the song? It doesn't beat this cheese: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3y0zh-3VJg&feature=related

 

[3113]

I would think that it would be pretty hard to find two black people (or white people, or Asians) in this day and age without some interracial mix in their genealogy

You didn't read the explaination, Charley. That doesn't seem to be the case here:

"We are all of us genetic mixtures to some extent and occasionally you'll have a convergence of the pale versions of these genes in African Americans and African Carribbeans who have a mixed black and white ancestry," says Bryan Sykes, Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford.

"But that doesn't seem to be the case here. The parents are Nigerians with little known white ancestry at all."

What is more likely, he says, is a genetic mutation within the little girl herself which she will then pass on to her children if she has any in the future.

 

[CharleyH]

You didn't read the explaination, Charley. That doesn't seem to be the case here:

I did read the explanation, 3113. It said that the woman's mother had fairer skin than her and that they didn't know of any white ancestry. It's all a matter of considering which of the two explanations is more likely: a) the baby has a freak mutation, or b) in a country that was under European rule for centuries, one or more ancestors that these two people don't know about were white.

I know which explanation makes more sense to me, and which explanation would make The Sun sell more newspapers, and I have to tell ya... they ain't the same.

 

[mynameisben]

Genetics can't explain how every kid is going to turn out looking. Hell, my own kids don't even look like me! If anything, they look a lot more like the Sparkletts water delivery guy.

Stories like this one convince me ever more that Science is an intellectual dead end.

 

[3113]

I know which explanation makes more sense to me, and which explanation would make The Sun sell more newspapers, and I have to tell ya... they ain't the same.

I would agree if it was the Sun that offered the explanation. But it was the BBC. So I give them a little more credibility in finding experts than if it was the Sun. There's also the possibility that the baby is albino.

 

[Handley_Page]

I would agree if it was the Sun that offered the explanation. But it was the BBC. So I give them a little more credibility in finding experts than if it was the Sun. There's also the possibility that the baby is albino.

Apparently the Doctors have ruled out the Albino theory.