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The Scicurious Brain Home    Email   PrintPrint  Have you ever
known a pair of identical twins? Not just the ones that look
alike, but identical twins that really were part of, at some
point, the same egg and sperm combination, that then split early
in development to create two “identical” people, with the same
genetics.  If genetics really were the be all and end all of our
behavior, you might expect these identical twins to look the
same, act the same, speak the same, move the same. They have the
same DNA, they should essentially, be the same people.  But
they’re not.  I have known several pairs of identical twins.
Yeah, the resemblance is more than a bit uncanny, but without a
doubt, they are not the same people. They have different
interests, different behaviors. One is more outgoing, while one
is more reserved. One may be into art while the other is into
engineering.  You might t