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Nancy L. Segal

    This author delves into the fascinating world of twins, driven by both personal experience and academic curiosity. Her work explores the nuances of identical and fraternal twins, uncovering the complexities of shared genetics and individual life paths. Through her writing, she offers insights into how these unique relationships shape identity and perception. Her approach is both informative and engaging.

    Nedělitelná dvěma
    Accidental Brothers
    Someone Else's Twin
    Deliberately Divided
    Indivisible by Two
    • Indivisible by Two

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      A leading expert on twins delves into the stories behind her research to reveal the profound joys and real-life traumas of twelve remarkable sets of twins, triplets, and quadruplets. Segal unravels these stories with an eye for the challenges that life as a twin can pose to parents, friends, spouses, and the twins themselves.

      Indivisible by Two
    • In Deliberately Divided, Nancy Segal revisits a controversial study that tracked the development of separated twins and triplets. None of the adoptive parents were told that they were raising a multiple birth baby. The truth was shocking for these parents and twins, many of whom have shared their unimaginable stories for the first time.

      Deliberately Divided
    • Someone Else's Twin

      • 301 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Presents research from case studies in which identical twins were mistakenly switched and separated at birth and raised by families other than their birth families, discussing the psychological consequences, moral issues, and legal ramifications of such events.

      Someone Else's Twin
    • Accidental Brothers

      • 325 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      The riveting story of two sets of twins separated at birth and improbably reunited as adults, a dream case for exploring nature vs. nurture.

      Accidental Brothers
    • Tajemství identických dvojčat přitahovalo zájem veřejnosti už od dávných dob. Vypráví se spousta tajuplných příběhů o ještě tajuplnější vazbě jednoho dvojčete s druhým, o jejich telepatickém propojení, o tom, jak dvojčata umírají ve stejný okamžik, byť vzdálená mnoho kilometrů, o tom, jak jedno dvojče havaruje v autě, zatímco druhé si způsobí shodné zranění náhodným pádem ze židle. Jistě, mnohá tajemství zůstávají nevyřešena. Kniha ani nepopírá, že existují dosud neobjasněné skutečnosti, záhadné shody okolností, jež se nedají zaškatulkovat ani do předem stanovené přihrádky genetické spřízněnosti, ani do přihrádky vlivu prostředí (nitroděložního, rodinného apod.) a více přihrádek (bohužel) v pracovně současné vědy nenajdeme.

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