In this thought - provoking documentary, meet one such twin who was born weighing more than three times as much as his brother,
a pair of identical twins with different sexual orientations, and a young girl born with extra pairs of arms and legs belonging to her undeveloped parasitic twin.
Not exact matches
Like other
identical pairs, they have a favorite
twin story to relate: When Pam went into labor
with her first child, Tami, miles away and unaware
of her sister's condition, felt pains in her stomach.
To get some closure on the nature versus nurture debate in human aesthetics, researchers asked 547
pairs of identical twins and 214
pairs of same - gender fraternal
twins to view 200 faces and rate them on a scale
of one to seven,
with one being the least attractive and seven the most attractive.
The Swedish
Twin Registry has enabled her to compare
identical twins, who share 100 %
of their genes,
with fraternal
twins, whose genetic makeups are no more similar to each other than any
pair of siblings.
Smith and Broude, working
with colleagues, at the Shemyakin - Ovchinnikov Institute for Bioorganic Chemistry in Moscow, studied five
pairs of identical twins in which one
twin had schizophrenia.
Early
twins studies were based on fewer than 50
twin pairs and could not detect any greater similarities in the microbiomes
of identical twins compared
with those
of fraternal
twins.
In one study
of 214 same - sex
twins,
identical twins were more likely to enjoy the same protein foods, but when it came to fruit and vegetables, their likes were only marginally more similar than
with the
pairs of non-
identical twins.
Vacth, who starred in Ozon's 2013 film Young and Beautiful, plays a woman caught in a
pair of passionate relationships
with diabolical,
identical twins, played by Belgian actor and Dardenne Brothers fixture Jérémie Renier.
Consider a
pair of reared - together
identical twins both born
with high - reactive temperaments.