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Types of Twins, Explained

2022

Identical twins, fraternal twins, and Banach-Tarski twins: one person decomposed and reassembled into two.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2022-01-01-types-of-twins-explained/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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[Title] "Types of Twins, Explained" Monozygotic: one egg splits into two people · Dizygotic: two eggs become two people · Banach-Tarski: one egg becomes one person, who splits into two identical, alarmed people

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