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Paperback. Lydia Fairchild almost lost her children. Not because she failed as a mother, but because a DNA test insisted, with total scientific confidence, that she was not their biological parent. She was pregnant with her third child at the time.What doctors eventually discovered inside her body would force courts, geneticists, and journalists to reconsider something most of us never think to question: that every person carries exactly one genetic identity, uniform in every cell, from birth to death.Lydia is a chimera. Somewhere in the earliest days of her own gestation, she absorbed a fraternal twin who never took an independent breath, yet never entirely vanished either. That twin lives on, quietly, in tissue Lydia will carry for the rest of her life.The Twin Who Wasn't tells her story, and many others like it. A kidney patient whose sons failed a paternity test meant to save her life. A model whose skin is divided clean down the middle by two different genetic lines. A convicted man's DNA found at a crime scene while he sat in prison, because his brother had once received his bone marrow. A mother who, decades after giving birth, still carries her son's living cells inside her own brain.This is a book about vanishing twins, borrowed blood, and the surprisingly porous border between one body and another. It moves from ancient Greek mythology, where a monster built from three animals first gave chimerism its name, into modern laboratories where scientists now grow human tissue inside pigs to help solve the organ transplant crisis. It sits with the philosophers asking what actually makes any of us one continuous person. And it shows, case by case, how a single blood sample can be scientifically accurate and still completely wrong about who someone is.Written for readers who devour the strange, true medical mysteries found in the best narrative science nonfiction, The Twin Who Wasn't is rigorously researched, drawn entirely from documented cases and published science, and paced like a thriller. No filler. No jargon left unexplained. Just one of the strangest true stories biology has to offer, and what it reveals about the fragile, fascinating line between self and other.You will never think about a DNA test, or a twin pregnancy, the same way again. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9798235626997
- Título
- The Twin Who Wasn't (Paperback)
- Autor
- Rafael Oyelaran
- Editorial
- Expedition Publishers
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- ISBN 13
- 9798235626997
Lydia Fairchild almost lost her children. Not because she failed as a mother, but because a DNA test insisted, with total scientific confidence, that she was not their biological parent. She was pregnant with her third child at the time.
What doctors eventually discovered inside her body would force courts, geneticists, and journalists to reconsider something most of us never think to question: that every person carries exactly one genetic identity, uniform in every cell, from birth to death.
Lydia is a chimera. Somewhere in the earliest days of her own gestation, she absorbed a fraternal twin who never took an independent breath, yet never entirely vanished either. That twin lives on, quietly, in tissue Lydia will carry for the rest of her life.
The Twin Who Wasn't tells her story, and many others like it. A kidney patient whose sons failed a paternity test meant to save her life. A model whose skin is divided clean down the middle by two different genetic lines. A convicted man's DNA found at a crime scene while he sat in prison, because his brother had once received his bone marrow. A mother who, decades after giving birth, still carries her son's living cells inside her own brain.
This is a book about vanishing twins, borrowed blood, and the surprisingly porous border between one body and another. It moves from ancient Greek mythology, where a monster built from three animals first gave chimerism its name, into modern laboratories where scientists now grow human tissue inside pigs to help solve the organ transplant crisis. It sits with the philosophers asking what actually makes any of us one continuous person. And it shows, case by case, how a single blood sample can be scientifically accurate and still completely wrong about who someone is.
Written for readers who devour the strange, true medical mysteries found in the best narrative science nonfiction, The Twin Who Wasn't is rigorously researched, drawn entirely from documented cases and published science, and paced like a thriller. No filler. No jargon left unexplained. Just one of the strangest true stories biology has to offer, and what it reveals about the fragile, fascinating line between self and other.
You will never think about a DNA test, or a twin pregnancy, the same way again.
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