Joined Twins and Other Deviations from Nature
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[Twins in nature, science, and society].
Rome is certainly one of the places in the world which speaks to us of twins more than any other, and, in Rome itself, the Gapitoline Hall of the Horatii and Guriatii triplets. From the myth of Romulus and Remus, history gradually passes through the tale of the triplets from Rome and Albalonga, who prevented a bigger war, up to the memory of the Emperor-philosopher Marcus Aurelius, who had twin...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
سال: 1874
ISSN: 0096-6762,1533-4406
DOI: 10.1056/nejm187404300901802