story: twins with same fingerprint?

[Mark]

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/inside-we ... print.html

Anyone have any contacts in India to get a hold of copies of these 10-prints to see just how similar they are?

[Dr. Borracho]

So, there is a pair of twins in Nigeria who are obsessed with teasing people about how much alike they are. They say their dentist in India found similar cavities in each twin's corresponding tooth. They say a live-scan fingerprint machine had trouble fingerprinting them. And some supermarket scandal rag sensationalizes the story by claiming they even have the same fingerprints.

Sounds like another Nigerian scam to me. Don't send money!

[John Vanderkolk]

I remember a lecture back in 1989 in which the speaker stated, "Show me the prints!" I still remember that message. Show us the prints, and the acquisition of the prints.

As we know and have experienced, identical twins are not identical. Maybe their DNA is indistinguishable with current DNA technology within our labs, but monozygotic twins are not identical. Even their parents can tell them apart.

Even the journal Nature can get it wrong about 'identical' twins and their finger prints. In a 2013 obituary about a surgeon who had performed the first transplant of a kidney from a living twin to his ailing twin brother back in 1954, the surgeon wanted to determine whether the twins were 'identical' for transplanted tissue/kidney rejection concerns. The surgeon conducted skin grafts between the twins and also had Boston PD conduct a comparison between the twins' finger prints prior to surgery and then went forward to what would become a successful transplant. See my response about twin finger prints to this Nature obituary: https://www.nature.com/articles/499029d

Also, Jeopardy presented a clue about this historical medical case. I responded at home with the correct question, "What is a kidney?"

[NRivera]

I'll take "Potent Potables" for $800 Trebek

[LPDC3]

https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/of ... -1.3863409
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