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Marvelous Marv · 03-11-2006, 06:33 PM

Ummm, okay, I'll be the one to say it. There are quite a few different types of twins. Maybe our geneticist, Ustwo, can help me out.

There is such a thing as fraternal twins with different fathers. Superfecundation is the term for it. Apparently, about 1 in 400 dizygotic sets of twins born to white women in the US is bipaternal.

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Marvelous Marv Cunning Runt Location: Taking a mulligan	Ummm, okay, I'll be the one to say it. There are quite a few different types of twins. Maybe our geneticist, Ustwo, can help me out. There is such a thing as fraternal twins with different fathers. Superfecundation is the term for it. Apparently, about 1 in 400 dizygotic sets of twins born to white women in the US is bipaternal. If anyone is interested: Link Link Again __________________ "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher