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This was a very long, very interesting article. I learned a bit from it. Two of my uncles are fraternal twins involved in a long-term twin study. They just tra
by doodlebugging 4y ago
This was a very long, very interesting article. I learned a bit from it.
Two of my uncles are fraternal twins involved in a long-term twin study. They just traveled to the east coast for their periodic study updates a month or two ago. I don't know what may have been learned from tracking them through the years but I know they have enjoyed the opportunity to participate.
Handedness mentioned in the article was also interesting since I have siblings who are left-handed and my son and I are ambidextrous in many things. I worked with a man who could close his eyes and write his name in cursive with each hand simultaneously with the left hand signature being a mirror image of the right hand signature. Pretty spectacular.
Other odd things mentioned included tendencies for moles or acne to appear in the same relative places on twins suggest to me that mole positions on singletons could also be passed from a parent such that a child having a mole in the same place as one of the parents could be an inherited trait - the "family" mole or birthmark.
Genetics is weird and fascinating and I haven't looked closely enough at it to understand it. I may have to read some more on the subject.
Thanks for this article.
- WalterBright 4y agoI had a benign cyst removed from my neck, about the size of a grape. I casually mentioned it to my dad some time later, and he said he had a golf ball sized cyst removed from the same location. Weird. It's almost as if we were related.
- bsenftner 4y agoWith a little bit of practice, anyone can learn how to write with their non-dominate hand backwards. It comes out backwards naturally. Just practice for an hour and you'll amaze your friends with backwards writing at full speed that looks just like your ordinary handwriting in a mirror.