A black couple has given birth to a white baby. Before getting too much into
the details, it is worthwhile to note that the baby is not albino. This is a case where a dark-skinned African couple living in London has given birth to what appears to be a Caucasian baby.
The couple doesn’t have history of mixed races in either of their heritage. This is truly a very rare event that left the baby’s father even joking about whether or not the fair skinned child is his. He then told the world he was joking; he knows that the baby is his because his wife is “trustworthy.”
The baby’s name is Nmachi, and she was born to Nigerians Ben and Angela Ihegboro. There are three possibilities as to why the strange event could have occurred:
The baby could be albino. Although preliminary tests rule this out, it’s been noted that doctors have not confirmed that she is not albino.
Dormant Caucasian DNA: somewhere down the line there could have been a mixed race couple long forgotten. This could cause the baby to have light skin.
A genetic mutation: Sci-Fi followers may be curious to realize that there’s a possibility that this child has a gene mutation never seen before.
The black couple, white baby birth will go down as one of the most interesting scientific stories of the year. Although white couples have given birth to darker skinned babies, it’s very rare for two extremely dark skinned individuals to give birth to someone with blond hair and blue eyes.
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It seems to me that this is rare evidence of convergent evolution. The blacks are finally evolving into whites.
You mean evidence for the mutation that led to the origin of Caucasians. For your info, whites are more susceptible to UV rays and cancer. Like the sickle cell mutation this is another unpreferred one for humans.
Well, it’s still certainly an aesthetic improvement.
Seriously???! Could you be more racist? What a disgusting and idiotic thing to say.
That is seriously messed up. It would be okay if it were funny but you are just purely racist and idiotic.
Na wa. This is the hight of trust. Well i hope the woman is truthful.
This is not a case of infidelity, sometimes the genes ‘skip’ a generation. There could have been in ancestor in one or both parents that had the skin, eye and hair color. This is why you have a lot of light skinned black people from the south. Much to the chagrin of the slave masters wives, the children produced from those unions looked so much like their own, that the women would either try to kill them or locked them up in closets to hide them. They did not want anyone else to know that their husbands’ were ‘boinking’ the slaves.
This child is really black, you can tell by the thickness and fullness of the hair. White babies are always born ‘bald’.
DNA is the only thing that will solve this amazing birth. Is there any DNA result yet?