Meet Lucy And Marie Aylmer. They’re Not Just Sisters — They’re Twins.

Meet Lucy And Marie Aylmer. They’re Not Just Sisters — They’re Twins.

Geneticsdoing what it does best.

Some people might assume Lucy and Maria Aylmer are just close friends, but the two are more than that — they’re sisters, twins to be exact.

According to the Mirror, the Aylmer pair were born January 1997 to their mother Donna, who is half Jamaican, and their dad Vince, who is white.

The girls are the youngest of five siblings who, according to Lucy, all have somewhat in-between skin colour. But the fact that they’re so seemingly different, yet twins, sets them apart.

Lucy, the shyer twin, has light hair and blue eyes. Maria, the “outgoing one,” has a darker complexion, eyes and hair color. Lucy explained that even their friends seem to be sceptical of their kinship.

“No one ever believes we are twins. Even when we dress alike, we still don’t look like sisters, let alone twins,” Lucy told the Daily Mail. “Friends have even made us produce our birth certificates to prove it.”

Dr Jim Wilson, a population geneticist at the University of Edinburgh told BBC News that skin colour is the result of over 20 gene variants.

“I think of it as a deck of cards,” Dr. Wilson told the BBC. “Imagine you are at the casino and you have been dealt a hand of cards, some will be black, and some red … By chance, [some have] passed more of the European skin colour variants, almost all of them, on to [one child], whereas more of the African ones, just by chance, on to [the other].”

While biracial twins have the possibility of this happening, their chances aren’t too high.

According to a BabyCenter article published in 2011, the overall chances of producing twins like Lucy and Maria, for example, are about two in a million. However, those chances increase when one parent is also biracial to one in 500.

Even so, Lucy and Maria have beaten the odds.

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1.    A genetika műveli, amihez a legjobban ért.

2.    ikrek, hogy egészen pontosan fogalmazzunk

3.    Úgy tűnik, még a barátaik is kétkednek a rokonságukkal kapcsolatban

4.    A barátaink még be is mutattatták velünk a születési anyakönyvi kivonatunkat, hogy bebizonyítsuk.

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Key:

1.    genetics doing what it does best

2.    twins to be exact

3.    even their friends seem to be sceptical of their kinship

4.    Friends have even made us produce our birth certificates to prove it

5.    I think of it as a deck of cards

6.    their chances aren’t too high