
Twin Mythconceptions
False Beliefs, Fables, and Facts about Twins
Description
Key Features
- Identifies common misunderstandings about twins
- Provides scientific answers to questions about twins
- Encompasses the biology, psychology, genetics, and personality of twins
- Includes discussion of identical, fraternal same-sex, and fraternal opposite-sex twins
- Allows for quick answers to common questions and more detailed explanations
Readership
Researchers in psychology, genetics and family dynamics. Interested lay people
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Twin Types: More Than Just Two
- Abstract
- Twin types: not just two
Chapter 2: Living Laboratories: Double Designs and Multiple Methods
- Abstract
- Twins and twin methods
- Novel twin and twin-like designs
- Genetic studies
- Cross-cultural considerations
Chapter 3: Mythconceptions About Twin Conceptions—I
- Abstract
Chapter 4: Mythconceptions About Twin Conceptions—II
- Abstract
Chapter 5: Identical or Fraternal? Telling Twins Apart
- Abstract
Chapter 6: Biological Complexities, Myths, and Realities
- Abstract
Chapter 7: Mind Readers? Twin Telepathy, Intelligence, and Elite Performance
- Abstract
Chapter 8: Going to School and Speaking Out Loud
- Abstract
Chapter 9: Human Behavioral Variations: Sex and Sex Differences
- Abstract
Chapter 10: Good Twin–Evil Twin and Other Family Ties
- Abstract
Chapter 11: Twins, Clones, and Other Extraordinary Pairs
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Chapter 12: Twin Spouses and Unrelated Look-Alikes: New Views
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Chapter 13: Of Two Minds: Old Questions and Fresh Answers
- Abstract
- Looking back
- Switched at birth and reared apart
- Worth a second look
- Mirror–mirror
- Two to one?
- Lost and found
- Multiple birth mothers and female twin daughters
- Special twins—special needs
- Gene hunt
Appendix 1: What About Hellin’s Law? And Does Weinberg Rule?
Appendix 2: Right-Handed or Left-Handed?
Appendix 3: Polar Body Twins: A Primer
Appendix 4: Nancy L. Segal’s Ten Classic Books on Twins
Appendix 5: Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
Product details
- No. of pages: 334
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
- Published: February 1, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128039953
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128039946