Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Just wondering. The clones featuring in this book are all exactly the same
>type of individuals. Same talents, same temperaments. This seems not very
>logical because we know from genetic twins that they sometimes tend to be
>wildly different or even opposite in both.
Unless the culture wants them to be the same, in which case whoever is
raising them may attempt to bias them to behave similarly rather than
differently.
I imagine that on some subtle level, parents of identical twins in our
culture try to differentiate the twins and reward them for distinctive
behaviors. Stratos' child-rearing techniques may instead reward the clones
for acting similarly, which could lead to self-correcting behavior - the
children would both consciously and unconsciously copy each other to
minimize differences and be rewarded.
Joshua
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