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by MBCook 3205 days ago
I think it would be really cool if it turned out that it could tell the difference between some pairs of identical twins due to seemingly imperceptible differences.
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I'm sure it's not 100%, but I'd bet it's close. Certainly by young adulthood the identical twins I've been around have been relatively easy to distinguish.
That's sort of my theory. But I wonder how much of people's ability to distinguish identical twins is based on physical differences vs more subtle things like how they carry themselves/interact with the world.
Some twins I've known deliberately create physical differences like different hairstyle so other people can recognize them easily without interactions.