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From: werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Can unrelated twins exist?
Message-ID: <2928@aecom.yu.edu>
Date: 22 Jul 90 19:39:56 GMT
References: <15227@reed.UUCP>
Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY
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In article <15227@reed.UUCP>, buckley@reed.UUCP (Ken Buckley) writes:
> I have a question for the numerically-minded geneticists out there. What I
> would like to know is how large the human population would have to be for
> there to be a statistically significant chance that visually indistinguishable
> "twins" exist. 

	Big. Really big. Astronomically large.

	Now as for visually virtually indistinguishable, or at least
close enough to draw stares, I point out the second 'Separated at Birth?'
volume is currently available in paperback.

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	        Craig Werner   (future MD/PhD, 5.5 years down, 2.5 to go)
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