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Twins present special problems for the study of lateralisation, both psychological and biological. Central to both areas is the common observation that identical (monozygotic) twins can differ in their laterality. In the case of hand preference, this is most obvious in the one in five twin pairs where one is right-handed and the other left-handed. A similar problem can be found morphologically, not only in normal anatomical traits, such as hair whorls, which can be in opposite direction, but also in the rare condition of conjoined twins, where it is frequently the case that one twin has its heart and viscera in the normal orientation (situs solitus) and the other is mirror reversed (situs inversus).
This special issue of Laterality brings together papers on these different aspects of twinning. Two of the papers are biological, one providing a detailed analysis of the laterality of artificially conjoined twins created by fusing two different species of newt, and the other overviewing the recent developments in understanding the molecular biology of visceral lateralisation in relation to twinning. The other papers concern aspects of cerebral lateralisation in twins, one providing a much needed meta-analysis and critical overview of the twin literature, another providing detailed data from a large study of handedness in twins, a third asking about the almost neglected question of footedness, earedness and eyedness in twins, and the fourth looking at lateralised cognitive processing. Between them these papers extend the literature on lateralisation in twins, and reinforce the need to consider the lateralisation of twins from biological, neurological and psychological perspectives. ... Read more

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Outstanding Book on Twin Lateralisation
I had a class that listed this as required reading and it was amazing what I learned. The book is very well laid out and the author takes you on a journey into science of the twin lateralisation in an easy to understand research based work. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Policy Review, published by Hoover Institution Press on January 1, 1994. The length of the article is 3511 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: American churches have contributed to the divorce problem by frivolously condoning marriages that should have been more closely scrutinized prior to the wedding. Most churches neglect premarital counseling and instruction. They have become mere sites at which weddings occur. However, a more active role by the church might help to alleviate the divorce problem. Churches should take counseling and instruction seriously, and it should be mandatory. Additionally, the church should assign an older married couple to serve as a mentor to a young couple about to be married.

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Title: Veil of tears: the church is part of our divorce problem - and solution.
Author: Michael J. McManus
Publication: Policy Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1994
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Issue: n67Page: p50(5)

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