Human Dizygotic Twinning: Evolutionary-Based Explanations/Twin Research Reviews: Conjoined Twins in a Triplet Pregnancy; Double Embryo Transfer; Health Anxiety; Delayed Delivery of the Second Twin/In the Media: Digital Marketing Twins; Bereaved Twin at March for Our Lives; Exchange of Places; Football Players Reunite as Patriots

Abstract

Human twinning poses a conundrum for researchers, given that the female uterus is optimally designed to carry a single fetus. Evolutionary explanations of dizygotic (DZ or fraternal) twinning provide insight and understanding of this reproductive event. This review is followed by summaries of recent twin research and reports concerning twins in a triplet pregnancy, double embryo transfer; a twin study of health anxiety, and delayed delivery of the second twin. Twin events reported in the media include a pair of digital marketing twins, a speech by a bereaved twin at the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C., twins who exchanged places, and a same-team reunion of twin football players.