Separated at Birth

Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More

Gary Arndt

Education, History

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🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In the 1960s, a New York clinical psychiatrist and an adoption agency conducted an experiment. They separated multiple sets of identical twins and one set of identical triplets into different families to test how much of personality is due to genetics or the environment. None of the children or families were ever told about this. The results of this experiment, and other cases like it, have proved to be fascinating. Learn more about identical twins and triples that were separated at birth on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors BetterHelp is an online platform that provides therapy and counseling services to individuals in need of mental health support. The platform offers a range of communication methods, including chat, phone, and video sessions with licensed and accredited therapists who specialize in different areas, such as depression, anxiety, relationships, and more. Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/Everywhere ButcherBox is the perfect solution for anyone looking to eat high-quality, sustainably sourced meat without the hassle of going to the grocery store. With ButcherBox, you can enjoy a variety of grass-fed beef, heritage pork, free-range chicken, and wild-caught seafood delivered straight to your door every month. Visit ButcherBox.com/Daily to get 10% off and free chicken thighs for a year. InsideTracker provides a personal health analysis and data-driven wellness guide to help you add years to your life—and life to your years. Choose a plan that best fits your needs to get your comprehensive biomarker analysis, customized Action Plan, and customer-exclusive healthspan resources. For a limited time, Everything Everywhere Daily listeners can get 20% off InsideTracker’s new Ultimate Plan. Visit InsideTracker.com/eed. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In the 1960s, a New York clinical psychiatrist and an adoption agency conducted an experiment.
0:06.0	They separated multiple sets of identical twins and one set of identical triplets into different families to test how much personality is due to genetics or the environment.
0:16.0	None of the children or families were ever told about this.
0:19.6	The results of this experiment and other cases like it have proved to be fascinating.
0:24.0	Learn more about identical twins and triplets that were separated at birth
0:28.1	on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. daily. One of the greatest debates in the history of psychology is if humans are fundamentally ruled by genetics or by our environment or as it's usually described
0:54.6	nature versus nurture. If we were raised in a different family in a different place
0:59.5	and maybe a different time how different would we be? We all probably would like to think
1:05.1	that we'd be exactly the same people, but that's because we can't envision ourselves
1:09.2	being someone that we're not. One way to test nature versus nurture would be to somehow remove one of the variables.
1:16.2	There have been countless cases of people with different genetic backgrounds being raised in similar
1:20.8	environments, but what if it were possible to do the opposite? Take two people
1:25.6	with the same genetics and raise them in different environments. The only people who have the exact
1:31.6	same genetics are identical twins, and you don't really see
1:35.1	identical twins raised in different households very often.
1:38.7	To do so, you would have to separate them at birth.
1:41.8	For the longest time, there just weren't any cases like this
1:44.8	that anybody knew of. For starters, identical twins are relatively uncommon.
1:49.1	There are 32 sets of twins born for every 1,000 births, and only a third of those are identical.
1:56.1	It isn't something that's super rare, I'm sure most of us know a pair of identical twins, or perhaps
2:00.7	you're one yourself, but it's also a small minority of people.
2:04.0	Second, assuming you had twins, the number of children who are born that are put up for
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