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Speaker 1: Australia's Most Identical is on seven thirty tonight on nine

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Speaker 1: and nine Now. Episode two will follow Strata on tomorrow night,

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Speaker 1: and Australia's preeminent expert in twins, Professor Jeff Craig, is

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Speaker 1: with us.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Jeff, I'm good morning to love of you.

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Speaker 1: This is a fascinating subject. Both of us have always felt, Professor,

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Speaker 1: how many pregnancies result in twins?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's actually about one in seventies. There's quite a

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Speaker 2: lot in thirty five. Yeah, one in thirty five Australians

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Speaker 2: is a twin.

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Speaker 1: Wow. I would never have thought it was that many. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: one in thirty five.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Jeff, can you tell us? Yeah, can you tell

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Speaker 3: us about?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Can you tell us about what we're going to hear

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Speaker 3: about on the show and see.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's really fascinating. You know. We took one hundred

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Speaker 2: twin pairs and we I had actually fun helping to

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Speaker 2: design the scientific experiments, if you like. Our questionnaires test

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Speaker 2: how identical the twins were, and there's everything from three

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Speaker 2: D facial recognition to quick fire questions to whether they

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Speaker 2: act the same in in in the same situation but

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Speaker 2: split but split together and they the twins themselves. The

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Speaker 2: other twins vote on each round who did best.

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Speaker 1: What's the difference between fraternal twin and identical twins.

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Speaker 2: Fraternal twins is a result of two fertilization events, So

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Speaker 2: you have two two embryos growing together side by side.

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Speaker 2: With identical twins, you get one fertilization event and then

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Speaker 2: that splits and we still don't know why. And so

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Speaker 2: the DNA is the same in identical twins because it's

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Speaker 2: just splitting very early on, and in fraternal twins it's

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Speaker 2: genetically as similar as any two sibl from the same family.

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Speaker 3: Wo how many birth is miraculous, But that is even more.

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Speaker 3: It's just freaky, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: It is miraculous. I am so curious about you hear

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Speaker 1: about twin telepathy. You know, you hear about someone hurts

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Speaker 1: themselves and then the other twin it doesn't even know

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Speaker 1: it's happened on the other side of the country, or

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Speaker 1: something fills a twine. Is that? What on earth is

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Speaker 1: going on?

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Speaker 2: There?

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Speaker 1: Is that a real thing?

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Speaker 2: Well from the twins perspective, it is the real thing,

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Speaker 2: because you know, twins have told me some of their

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Speaker 2: experiences yea. And the way that The way that science

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Speaker 2: explains it is that they have twins other special bond.

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Speaker 2: They've been together since in the world day zero in

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Speaker 2: the wom and they've had this shared life together, shared experience,

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Speaker 2: and with and with identical twins, shared genetics, so so

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Speaker 2: much is shared that they end up reacting the same

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Speaker 2: way to the same situation. And I think the of course,

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Speaker 2: some twins do have this unexplainable experience that you know,

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Speaker 2: even if they live across the country. One of them says, oh,

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Speaker 2: you know, I've suddenly felt pain in my leg, and

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Speaker 2: then my twin caught me up and said I've broken it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And so I can't deny it.

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Speaker 2: We can't, We mustn't deny it. It's a it's a

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Speaker 2: real experience, but we so we can explain some of

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Speaker 2: it by the shared experience. It's almost like, you know,

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Speaker 2: those people in the audience that have been married many years,

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Speaker 2: they can almost get each other respond and gets each

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Speaker 2: other what each other's going to say to a certain question. Sure,

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Speaker 2: but twins it's even more so. It's the closest relationship

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Speaker 2: known to man. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I can't let the moment go without saying, Lisa, Sure,

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Speaker 3: twins feel the twins from other well done, you can

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Speaker 3: go home.

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Speaker 2: Professor.

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Speaker 3: Can you tell us about the pair of teachers here

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Speaker 3: in the west of It and Linda? What about the

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Speaker 3: among the show? They're part of a of what twenty twins?

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Speaker 3: I believe, well, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean that they started as as as one of one

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Speaker 2: hundred and I met them there bottom. They're amazing, amazing twins.

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Speaker 2: They're just kind of naturals in front of the camera.

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Speaker 2: They're so genuine. They're ex their ex teachers, they're retired,

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Speaker 2: and they're just so genuine. They look they look identical,

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Speaker 2: but through you know the but all the tests be

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Speaker 2: put them through, you will see how sometimes they're identical

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Speaker 2: and sometimes they're not always the same.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is going to be a fascinating look at

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Speaker 1: a twins. I just hope they're not all dressed. I disturbing,

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Speaker 1: ID have been disturbing my adult twins dress the sign

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Speaker 1: But Hi, that's just me. It's on tonight at seven

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Speaker 1: point thirty on Channel nine and then straight into episode

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Speaker 1: two tomorrow night. Professor Jeff Craig, thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, professor.

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Speaker 2: Oh no worries