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February 4, 2024

Should twins be in separate classes? Many schools say yes, but the answer is not so simple

Catherine E. Wood, Swinburne University of Technology

As a clinical psychologist specialising in twins, this is is one of the most frequent questions I am asked.

Semi-identical twins share all the DNA passed on from their mother, but only a portion from their father. From shutterstock.com

March 3, 2019

Same same but different: when identical twins are non-identical

Hannah Brown, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute

Semi-identical or sesquizygotic twins occur when two sperm fertilise one egg. A boy and a girl in Brisbane are only the second set of semi-identical twins known in the world.

The Good sisters, born in Bristol in 1948, were the first quadruplets in the world to survive a caesarean-section birth. Paul Townsend

November 7, 2012

Explainer: twins, triplets, quadruplets and more

Andrew Hoy, University of Sydney

Are they twins? Are they identical? Are they natural? Which one is older? These are some of the all-too-familiar, somewhat invasive and highly personal questions posed by well-intentioned strangers to…

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NHMRC Biomedical Australian Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist, Swinburne University of Technology

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