innominatetwice{at}yahoo.com wrote or quoted:

> Okay, I have a new question: When a Black person and a White person
> have a child, why is it that (in my opinion) the characteristics of the
> child appear as an "averaging" of the parents traits? For instance,
> their skin color, body shape and so on.
> 
> What I want to know is: how is it possible for the two sets of genes to
> work together and yet interfere with each others results? And to do so
> in a way that seems predictable and regulated.

For much the same reason that you get something kind-of grey if
you mix a container of black balls and a container of white
balls together.

Of course, sometimes you get "hybrid vigor" or "hybrid
sterility" -
and not really something intermediate at all.
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