• 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
        2·
        5 days ago

        you are thinking of identical twins. they are created by impregnated ovum splitting in two. that’s why they look alike - they are literal genetic copy, defacto the same person. you can’t distinguish them with a dna test.

        fraternal twins come from two different eggs impregnated independently, growing up in the same womb. they are two different people, they don’t look alike, they don’t even have to have the same sex.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin

  • skrik@lemmy.world
    23·
    6 days ago

    Adriellen Barbosa Lima, 22, who was shot and killed in Mineiros, in southwestern Goiás, became known for a rare case of twins with different fathers. At the time, the young woman was 19 years old, and her pregnancy resulting from heteroparental superfecundation was the 20th such case recorded worldwide up to that point.

    Adriellen was killed on April 20 at a house near the Buena Vista housing development. Joelson Ribeiro da Conceição, 23, the young woman’s partner, is the prime suspect in the crime. As of the latest update to this report on Wednesday (29), he had not been located by the police.

    Mãe de gêmeos de pais diferentes é assassinada em Goiás | G1 https://g1.globo.com/go/goias/noticia/2026/04/29/mae-assassinada-em-goias-tinha-ficado-conhecida-por-caso-raro-de-gemeos-de-pais-diferentes.ghtml

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      8·
      6 days ago

      There are instances of two different dna samples in one person, so don’t. Also, white babies can be born to black women and black babies to white women.

    • Olmai@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 days ago

      To add to the other comment, albino babies have not been treated kindly in the past

      • Ramsesder13te@feddit.org
        2·
        6 days ago

        A lot of people haven’t been treated nicely because of some gene defect. And albino doesn’t even come with any mayor disabilities.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      6 days ago

      I know you’re joking but I’ve heard of weirder in my family, a majority of the time we pop out looking pale and pink but on rare occasions some native DNA will come to the surface and they come out tan. Hasn’t happened in a couple too many generations so I suspect the native blood has become too thin but with an ethnically mixed enough population this could happen relatively frequently.

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          6 days ago

          Native American, most of my ancestoral branches have had good relationships with the tribes we’ve encountered over the last 500 years give or take since the oldest American branch has been here. Sometimes we intermarried, hell at least one branch outright became fully integrated into the Cherokee, got some ancestors in one of their grave yards back east and have some pictures of my last ancestor born amongst them.

          Best I get out of the deal is that I tan a bit better than your average person of non-Metis Scottish diaspora.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 days ago

    That’s honestly cool - not cool she was killed, that is tragic. But personally I’d have been thrilled to get a variety pack like that, nature is so interesting and they’d both be my kids regardless of who fathered them.

  • sangeteria@lemmy.ml
    1·
    6 days ago

    Maybe good for gay men who are doing surrogacy and want two kids but can’t decide who to be the father. Probably not how she had her kids but yk

    • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
      2·
      6 days ago

      and sometimes they are. and it is really their business, but it is why we invented contraception.

      • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        The sluttiness is rarely the complaint. It’s the ones who promise faithfulness we hate. Be your slutty self but be real about it. This isn’t about women, it’s about people - it goes for men too.

  • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    What’s the cut-off for “nature”? I mean, it’s not like DNA tests grow wild on the PCR plains, and it seems to me that the DNA test was the “tattle tale”.

  • SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml
    1·
    6 days ago

    So, not twins in the biological sense then? Is it not so that a fertilised egg must split and then two babies develop from that one egg for them to become twins? This is two separate eggs being fertilised from different men in a short time frame. All they have done is share the womb.

    • kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml
      7·
      7 days ago

      there’s nothing to indicate that this woman is a sex worker, so it’s safe to assume you found an excuse to use a misogynistic word and took it since you couldn’t help it

  • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
    171·
    7 days ago

    I googled it so you don’t have to: The story is true, but there are a lot of fake pictures. I don’t know if these pictures are genuine.