Archive for the ‘twins’ tag
Black and White Twins #
Ryan and Leo were born on the same day to the same parents. But one looks “black” while the other looks “white.”
(via BuzzFeed)
Human Mirror #
Perhaps just because I’m a twin — fraternal, if you were wondering — I feel some obligation to link to this Improv Everywhere happening.
Identical Twins Not Completely Identical #
This is probably moderately more interesting to me a (fraternal) twin, but it’s still unexpected.
“The presumption has always been that identical twins are identical down to their DNA,” said Carl Bruder, Ph.D. and Jan Dumanski, Ph.D., of UAB’s Department of Genetics and the study’s lead authors. “That’s mostly true, but our findings suggest that there are small, subtle differences due to [copy number variation]. Those differences may point the way to better understanding of genetic diseases when we study so-called discordant monozygotic twins….a pair of twins where one twin has a disorder and the other does not.”
(via Slashdot)
Unknowing Twins Marry Each Other #
This isn’t actually news — it appears to have happened a while ago — but being half of a pair of mixed-sex fraternal twin it seemed morbidly interesting to me. The British pair had been adopted by separate couples at birth and didn’t find out they were related until after they were married. Strange indeed.
(via Boing Boing)