Dr. Nancy Segal's Twin Reaction Write Up

Twin Reaction Write Up

Humans are complex, yet simple. Dr.Nancy Segal’s discussion was interesting. I enjoyed the fact that she began her lecture with a basis. The basis begin- if we are to look at the study of how twins are similar/different when raised apart, then we need to know what sort of twins we are looking at; either monozygotic(identical) or dizygotic(fraternal). I would have had a better understanding if hypotheses were specified, but regardless of whether it was, I still was intrigued in looking at both sets of twins. They was one set of monozygotic twins being raised separately. Although both were raised separately, then still had different backgrounds, but also similar thought processes. The first one was Jack,
Shared environments do not always make relatives alike. With this said, I also agree with Segal’s statement in her response to the infamous criticism that identical twins are, “alike in personality because people treat them alike.” I believe even if this were to be the case, from a sociological standpoint twins who would even be raised alike would want to pursue in their power, to set themselves apart from their twin sibling- because our culture strongly encourages individualism, rather than collectivism. In coming together of how genes shape twins, it was stimulating to learn about the reactive gene, which is a gene that gives off environment correlation and fitted with monozygotic twins and is similar to treatment given off by others. The monozygotic twins personality similarity mostly affects shared genes. The evocative gene correlation also went hand in hand with how those alike can elicit similar responses. Overall, this study as a whole in my opinion comes back to the point that we are all similar, yet all