I’m guessing Asia and North America to be closer
Alfred Russel Wallace, a biologist, naturalist and anthropologist who studied life in the tropics of Indonesia came up with the same idea of natural selection as Charles Darwin and prompted Darwin to publish his Origin of Specie sooner rather than later. He also studied the geographic distribution of species and as as well he was a social activist who criticized capitalism and warned of damage to the environment from man's economic activities.
The result of this would greatly depend on the genotype of the parents. If either the father is homozygous Type A and the mother is homozygous Type B, then yes, a mix up has occurred because the probability of having an offspring with the blood type O would be zero. But if both of them are heterozygous, then having a child with type O will be possible with a 25% probability.
