How's about that for a provocative title then? This was the title of a Channel 4 programme last night (02.11.09) and I took more than a slight interest - you see I'm white British and my wife is British-Indian (check out the links on the right hand side of the blog, she's Sikh). So, the baby we're going to have will be a little "hybrid".
Until recently my wife and I hadn't even thought about what this would mean in practice, but just last week she turned to me and said, 'What if the baby doesn't look like me?' To which I replied that of course it would - in fact, better to look like mummy than have my satellite dish ears.
Well, according to the molecular geneticist (!) on TV last night, mixed race babies might be more genetically hetero-zygous, which in theory could lead them to be genetically predisposed to better health (taking in to account that environment will also play a massive part). So, I'm having a Genetic Super Baby!
So, me and my wife are now looking forward to seeing what our genetic hybrid will look like...
For more info, http://raceandscience.channel4.com/?intcmp=homepage_main_race-science
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