One and the Same (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Abigail Pogrebin | knygos.lt

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One blueprint, two souls. How do you become your own person when there is someone else-your twin-who is exactly the same? Abigail Pogrebin is a mother, a New Yorker, a writer, a daughter, and a wife, but the role that has most defined her, she knows, is that of identical twin. In One and the Same, she weaves her quest to understand how genetics shape us into a memoir of her own twinship. What does it mean to have a mirror image? How can you be one, singular, unique, as we all like to think we are, when somebody shares your DNA? In One and the Same Abigail crisscrosses the country and travels the world to explore the relationship between twins, which can range from passionate to bitterly resentful.

 She explores the new science of epigenetics, which shows how the same DNA can yield different results. She speaks to the twins experts and tries to answer the question parents of twins ask most: Is it better to encourage their closeness or separateness?