Untangling Twinning: What Science Tells Us about the Nature of Human Embryos

by Maureen L. Condic

Scientists and philosophers have long struggled to answer the questions of when human life begins and when human life has inherent value. The phenomenon of identical (monozygotic) twinning presents a significant challenge to the view that human life and human personhood begin at conception. The fact that a single embryo can split to generate two (or more) genetically identical embryos seems to defy the notion that prior to splitting an embryo can...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026810705X
• ISBN13: 9780268107055
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"