From: CBS
Just alike: Twins separated at birth
CBS:
Identical twins are as close to being JUST ALIKE as genetics will allow. And for researchers, those similarities are providing very important insights. Here’s Erin Moriarty of “48 Hours”:
On a recent afternoon at London’s Heathrow Airport, 11-year-old Evie Hanlon-Moores stood impatiently alongside her mother. She was waiting for someone she hadn’t seen for nearly a year.
“Are you nervous at all?” Moriarty asked.
“Maybe,” Evie replied.
Despite the long separation she had no trouble recognizing her.
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“If twins occur in approximately one in 80 births naturally, then you have to figure, if hundreds of thousands of girls have been abandoned, there’s a fair number out there,” said Nancy Segal, a professor at Cal State-Fullerton, and director of the Twin Studies Center.
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