Twins from an adaptive point of view
The biological anthropologist Rebecca Sear looks at the evolution of human twinning in a post for This View of Life: “Solving the Evolutionary Puzzle of Twin...
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Genetics of brain surface area and cortical thickness
The field of brain imaging has progressed remarkably during the past several years. I follow the literature because as the study of heritability of brain str...
Searching for the genetics of identical twinning
This week, Nature is carrying a news feature by David Cyranoski, which profiles Bruno Reversade, a geneticist trying to find genetic causes of identical twin...
NY Times: Veterinarian-disguised Mengele brought twins to Brazilian village
A reader sent along this NY Times article about the town in Brazil with an unusual concentration of twins. Naturally, it’s a Boys from Brazil type of scenari...
Non-identical identical twins
Identical twins may be genetically different due to somatic variations, and a new study by Bruder and colleagues finds that large deletions contribute to so...