Twins, an historical curiosity
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https://doi.org/10.18597/rcog.740Keywords:
twins, Castor & Polux, Romulo & Remo, Cosme & Damian, nazi camps, pregnancy reduction, siamese, U´WasAbstract
This is a summary of religious and mytologic believes between African indigenous and ancient Greco-Roman people. This paper describes some cruel experiments over Jewish twins at concentration camps and the modern feticide in multiple gestation. It mentions the importance of twins at native cultures of Central and South-America.Author Biography
Miguel Ángel Alarcón Nivia
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