Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us about Human Behavior

Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us about Human Behavior Book Description

In Entwined Lives, preeminent twin researcher Dr. Nancy L. Segal reveals how twins hold the keys to understanding our physical and intellectual capabilities, personality traits, social attitudes, and more. Combining the latest research with illuminating case histories -- including identical twins separated at birth and reunited thirty-nine years later -- she explores the roles played by genes and environment, and shows how nature's "living laboratories" provide vital clues to our behavioral riddles. In this unique book, you'll read about:
-- The special relationship twins share
-- The unusual language patterns of twins
-- What twins tell us about cooperation and competition
-- What losing a twin reveals about grieving
-- Pseudo twins -- unrelated siblings who are reared together
-- The role of fertility treatments in twin and "twinlike" conceptions
-- How conjoined twins view their coexistence
-- Twins and clones
-- Twins in the courtroom
-- Twinning in the nonhuman animal kingdom
-- Facts and fallacies of being a twin

From athletic prowess to marital stability to why we gain and lose weight, Entwined Lives sheds new light on the nature/nurture debate and will have a profound effect on the way we think about ourselves and each other.
Twins are nature's living laboratories. Through them we are able to uncover new information concerning the genetic and environmental factors affecting who we are. Studies using identical and fraternal twins hold the keys to understanding our intellectual abilities, personality traits, social attitudes, and behavior. In Entwined Lives, Dr. Nancy Segal brings together cutting-edge information with illustrative case histories of twins and their families. In addition to the fascinating stories of identical twins reared apart and reunited as adults, Dr. Segal provides insights into the unusual language patterns of twins, how twin studies affect legal decisions, the role of fertility treatments in twin and "twinlike" conceptions, and more. This groundbreaking book explores the ways in which twins enhance our knowledge of human behavioral and physical development, while shedding new light on the nature/nurture debate and on the burgeoning field of evolutionary psychology.

Nancy L Segal has contributed to Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us about Human Behavior as an author. Segal, professor of Developmental Psychology and director of the Twin Studies Center at California State University, Fullerton, is a leading researcher of twins.

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