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To find out more about this and other really weird forms of "inheritance", read She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity, by Carl Zimmer. One of these involves situations where a mother becomes the genetic child of her child. It's complicated, but fascinating. Generally speaking, though, the author dissolves the old dichotomy between nurture and nature in humans and other forms of life.
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This brings up more questions than it answers. How can you be pregnant with twins and not know it during the first delivery? That is the weirdest thing!
I have wondered that for a long time. I use to run around with 2 brothers who are twins and they look nothing at all alike. They don't even look like they are related to one another, much less each other's twin brother.
I never said anything to either of the brothers about it, but in the back of my mind I couldn't help but wonder if maybe their mother had sex with a man and got pregnant, and then within a very short period of time, like less than an hour later, she had sex with another man and got pregnant again, thus, making her pregnant with "twins" by 2 different men/baby daddys.
I was told by different people it would be impossible for a womam to be pregnant with twins by 2 different men but still, I'm not convinced it's impossible and I don't believe for a minute my twin friends have the same father.
I have wondered that for a long time. I use to run around with 2 brothers who are twins and they look nothing at all alike. They don't even look like they are related to one another, much less each other's twin brother.
I never said anything to either of the brothers about it, but in the back of my mind I couldn't help but wonder if maybe their mother had sex with a man and got pregnant, and then within a very short period of time, like less than an hour later, she had sex with another man and got pregnant again, thus, making her pregnant with "twins" by 2 different men/baby daddys.
I was told by different people it would be impossible for a womam to be pregnant with twins by 2 different men but still, I'm not convinced it's impossible and I don't believe for a minute my twin friends have the same father.
It's all about ovulation. Dizgotic is fraternal. Separate eggs released and fertilized. Twins, in that case, are related to each only as much as regular siblings. What you are describing is possible though rare. I looked it up. Heteropaternal Superfecundation. Google it. Fascinating.
Semen can live in that environment for days... Just happened to be two lucky swimmers made it to the egg for fertilization.
Sounds like an episode from Maury Povich... When it comes to baby latron you are indeed not the father. When it comes to baby Timmy you are the father. Congrats?
They were trying to conceive. It was an issue.
You would probably be embarrassed or disgusted at what topics come up among biologists at the lunch table. We know way too much about each others (spouses and kids) anatomy and bodily functions or malfunctions.
Lady needed to have sex with both men unprotected within days of each other.
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