THE Today Show aired a story about twins on May 7, 2008.
Reporter Natalie Morales said there are 75 million sets of twins worldwide, and one out of 30 births are twins. She also mentioned Twins Days Festival, an event held every August in Twinsburg, Ohio. (Twinsburg was named after Moses and Aaron Wilcox, identical twins who attracted settlers to the area starting in 1819.)
Here's a video of the Twins Day Festival.
Today interviewed Dr. Nancy L. Segal, psychology professor and director of the Twin Studies Center -- which she founded in 1991-- at California State University, Fullerton. She is also a twin.
"Identical twins raised apart are more alike than fraternal twins raised together, and that is very powerful testimony to the fact that genes are pervasive" she said.
Other experts interviewed were Jan Dumanski of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Carl Bruder of the Southern Research Institute. Their research has found that identical twins are not exactly identical.
Morales also interviewed identical twins Elaine Macan of Kansas City, Kan., and Eileen Pearlman of Los Angeles and identical twins Ronde and Tiki Barber.
Pearlman wrote a book called Raising Twins: What Parents Want to Know (And What Twins Want to Tell Them).
Ronde is an American football player, a cornerback for the National Football League's Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who won Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003. Tiki is a sports broadcaster and former running back for the New York Giants. They were born April 7, 1975, in Blacksburg, Va.
Tiki's memoir was published in September 2007. Ronde and Tiki have written a series of children's books.
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Resources: Dr. Nancy Segal, Twin Studies Center, California
Book: Raising Twins by Eileen Pearlman
Identical twin Tiki Barber writes his memoir
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~ Posted by Becky, who also blogs at Deep Muck Big Rake. Write her at becky_handsfull@yahoo.com.
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