The Sinister True Story of the Triplets Separated at Birth as Part of Cruel Social Experiment
In 1980, when Robert Shafran arrived for his first day of college at Sullivan County Community College in New York, he was confused and overwhelmed by people he had never met warmly greeting him with hugs and high-fives, and, strangest of all, calling him Eddy. The reason behind the odd reception emerged when he met his new roommate Michael Domitz.
It turned out that Michael’s roommate from the previous year was Eddy Galland, a young man who not only looked exactly like Robert, but walked, talked, and acted like him as well. The two men were exact copies of each other, so after Michael learned that Robert was born on the same day as his old roommate and that, like him, he was adopted, he decided the two of them had to meet.
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In his 2020 book
The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice, writer/academic Fredrik deBoer attempted to reconcile his own and others’ socialist/left political perspectives with what he saw as discoveries produced by twin and adoption “kinship” studies coming from the field of human behavioral genetics, plus recent claims of associations between some genetic variants and IQ.
1 A major theme of the book was that “academic potential varies between individuals, and cannot be dramatically improved.” This led deBoer to propose changes in the U.S. education system:
“Since cognitive talent varies from person to person, our education system can never create equal opportunity for all. Instead, it teaches our children that hierarchy and competition are natural, and that human value should be based on intelligence. These ideas are counter to everything that the left believes, but until they acknowledge the existence of individual cognitive di
Study: Identical Twins Are Not Genetically Exact Copies
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A new study suggests that identical
twins are not exactly the same genetically. Identical twins are two babies that come from the same fertilized egg.
Scientists in Iceland examined DNA from 387 pairs of identical twins, their parents, children, husbands or wives.
The examinations led the team to find “early
mutations that separate identical twins,” lead researcher and geneticist Kari Stefansson said. He is a professor at the University of Iceland and founder of the company deCODE genetics.
Mutations are small changes in DNA that can happen when a cell divides in an attempt to copy itself. These small changes can influence a person’s physical appearance or control a person’s ability to fight a disease.
Identical twins are not clones
Research finds genetic differences in such siblings By CHRISTINA LARSON, Associated Press
Published: January 12, 2021, 6:05am
Share: Identical twins Alf, left, and Sven Fehnhanhn, left background, 79, from Kassel, pose along with 7-month-old Luis Carl, foreground, and Albert Frank Millgramm, right background, during a twins meeting in Berlin. According to research published recently, identical twins are not exactly the same genetically. (Jockel Finck/Associated Press)
WASHINGTON If you’re an identical twin who’s always resisted being called a clone of your sibling, scientists say you have a point.
Identical twins are not exactly genetically the same, new research shows.
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