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| Subject: Nonsense: The third factor: beyond nature and nurture Sun Oct 13, 2013 9:46 pm | |
| As twin pregnancies go, it was happily uneventful. The identical baby girls lazed in the comfort of their mother's belly until they were full-term and born in a Dutch hospital. But after their birth, doctors noticed something was wrong. One girl was quite normal. The other had two vaginas, two colons and a spinal cord that split in two towards the bottom of her back.
It was the beginning of years of surgery and care for one of the twins. It was also the start of a mystery that took the best part of a decade to solve. From looking at the placenta, doctors knew the girls were identical twins. So how could twins who shared the same genes be so different?
It is well known that identical twins can grow into very different adults, and not just with respect to their personalities: physical differences become increasingly apparent with age. These are usually attributed to differences in environment. The girls' differences were profound and there from birth.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/the-third-factor-beyond-nature-and-nurture-20130921-2u77p.html#ixzz2hemLzsI5 |
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