Identical, or monozygotic, twins develop from the same fertilized egg that splits into two. These twins are the same sex and share the same genes. Sometimes called paternal twins, identical twins ...

Introduction : beginning to rethink twins / Philip M. Peek -- Twins and double beings among the Bamana and Maninka of Mali / Pascal James Imperato and Gavin H. Imperato -- Twins and intertwinement : ...

When we think of identical twins, we often imagine mirror images — same face, same smile and perhaps even the same talents. But what surprises many is that these genetic carbon copies can have ...

Their children are genetic siblings, known as quaternary twins. After identical twin sisters from Delaware married identical twin brothers from Tennessee, the children they are raising together share ...

From Romulus and Remus—the myth of the twin brothers who founded the city of Rome—to the synchronized speech of Australia's "Twinnies" Paula and Brigette Powers, identical siblings have long inspired ...

In 2004, Michigan police found that DNA recovered from a crime scene matched that of Jerome Cooper, a notorious criminal. But what seemed like an open-and-shut case got complicated when the cops found ...