Twins Remix (ep. 169)

<p>Twins, synchronicity, science, anomalies, and dark mysteries.</p> <p><br /> <a href="http://www.patreon.com/yourbrainonfacts">Support the show</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.teepublic.com/stores/your-brain-on-facts?ref_id=11890" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merch</a>, <a href= "http://www.yourbrainonfacts.com/book" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">book</a></p> <p>Music by <a href="http://www.incompetech.com/">Kevin MacLeod </a></p> <p>Read the full <a href= "http://www.yourbrainonfacts.com/twins1">script</a>.</p> <p>Reach out and touch Moxie on <a href= "http://www.facebook.com/yourbrainonfacts">FB</a>, <a href= "http://www.twitter.com/brainonfactspod">Twit</a>, the '<a href= "http://www.instagram.com/yourbrainonfacts">Gram</a> or <a href="http://www.yourbrainonfacts.com/contact">email.</a>  </p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 1940, a pair of twin boys, only three weeks old, were put up for adoption in Ohio.  Separate families adopted each boy and coincidentally named both James, calling them Jim for short.  They grew up never knowing anything about one another, but their lives were bizarrely similar.  They each had a dog named Toy and in elementary school, each both was good at math, showed talent in woodshop, but struggled with spelling.  But it was as they moved into adulthood that coincidences really started to pile up.  My name...</span></p> <p><br /> <br /></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If one is good, two must be better, so today we were talking about twin on the first of a pair of twin episodes.  Let’s start with a quick review.  Fraternal twins occur when two eggs are separately fertilized.  They are genetically distinct, basically regular siblings that happened to be conceived at the same time.  Or not.  There’s a rare circumstance called superfetation, where a woman ovulates while already pregnant and the second egg also gets fertilized.  Multiple eggs being released during ovulation can sometimes result in heteropaternal superfecundation, meaning the eggs were fertilized