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The human twin birth rate in the United States rose 76% from 1980 through 2009, from 9.4 to 16.7 twin sets (18.8 to 33.3 twins) per 1,000 births. [5] The Yoruba people have the highest rate of twinning in the world, at 45–50 twin sets (90–100 twins) per 1,000 live births, [6] [7] [8] possibly because of high consumption of a specific type of yam containing a natural phytoestrogen which may ...
This category contains articles on pairs of identical twins, and people who were born with an identical twin. For the article about multiple births, see Twin. For a list of all twins, identical or otherwise, see List of twins. For other uses of the term Twin, see Twin (disambiguation)
Monochorionic twins are monozygotic (identical) twins that share the same placenta. If the placenta is shared by more than two twins (see multiple birth ), these are monochorionic multiples . Monochorionic twins occur in 0.3% of all pregnancies. [ 1 ]
Poto and Cabengo (names given, respectively, by Grace and Virginia Kennedy to themselves) are American identical twins who used an invented language until the age of about eight. The girls were apparently of normal intelligence. They developed their own communication as they had little exposure to spoken language in their early years. Poto and ...
Ella Harper, unnamed twin brother died shortly after birth; Gordon Hayward, twin sister; Jon Heder, identical twin brother; William Randolph Hearst, twin died as an infant; Marilu Henner, twin sister; John Hensley, fraternal twin sister; Alex Hirsch, twin sister; Ryan Howard, twin brother; Sabrina Ionescu, twin brother; Urtzi Iriondo, identical ...
Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967 is a noted photograph by photographer Diane Arbus from the United States. Since its debut Identical twins, Roselle, N. J. , has become the image most closely associated with her large body of work.
Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited is a 2007 memoir written by identical twins Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein and published by Random House. [1] The authors, born in New York City in 1968 to Leda Witt, daughter of Nathan Witt, were separated as infants, in part, to participate in a "nature versus nurture" twin study ...
John Rice (December 3, 1951 – November 5, 2005) and Greg Rice (born December 3, 1951), sometimes known as the Rice Brothers or Rice Twins, were identical twin dwarfs, known throughout the United States for their appearances in various commercials and infomercials.