----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Brazee" <howard at brazee.net> To: "'Dragaera (E-mail)'" <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 11:42 AM Subject: Re: Twins > Grady Brandt wrote: > > >On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 20:21:29 -0500, Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> > >wrote: > > > >> On 12/9/05, Jon_Lincicum at stream.com <Jon_Lincicum at stream.com> wrote: > >> > >> Thinking about it a bit, even if Dragaerans themselves never give > >> birth to twins, they may be familiar with other species (including > >> Easterners) that do sometimes give birth to twins. > > > >Animal husbandry should give them the concept of multiple births. However > >it may not follow that they know the concept of "identical" twins or that > >humans or Easterners might have multiple births. I don't recall any > >mention of such in the texts personally but I'm hardly as encyclopedic as > >some others here. > > > > > > > Animal husbandry combined with the genetic science that they have shown > to have will give them such understanding. I wouldn't be surprised if > they could create identical twins when desired for some royal or noble > inheritance purpose. Steve is setting us up so that when he has Zerika cloned we won't have to suspend our disbelief too much. Jeff