STUPEFACT Scientists! More and more twins in India!

The arrival of twins to a family is almost always a cause for wonder and joy, but there are places on the planet, as we already tried once in Science Daily Online, that see their twin population increase in an unprecedented way In addition to the case of Candido Godoi in Brazil, another place has jumped into the media for this phenomenon, the people of Kodinhi in India .

The village of Kodinhi, in southern India, is an enigma for doctors and scientists .It has a population of 4,000 families and among them there are 500 couples of twins .And we are not talking about twins, but mostly they are identical twins.Bearing in mind, also, that the rate of twin births in India is very low, it is amazing that of every 1.000 deliveries between 36 and 40 are multiple .

This phenomenon has not always happened, started about 90 years ago , the How old are the first groups of twins in this community today.

Possible causes

Several doctors and scientists have studied the case and have not could have reached definitive conclusions .Some have stated that the origin could be inbred and be something genetic , although due to the type of population it seems, it does not seem very likely, also considering that the phenomenon is quite recent.

STUPEFACT Scientists! More and more twins in India!

They point out that when a couple, in which one of the spouses is a foreigner, decides to settle in that area, they also meet the birth pattern twin. There are no cases of fertility treatments , something that has increased multiple births in many other areas of the planet.

The age of mothers was studied, which it is a factor that influences the fact of having twins, and even their height, but nothing was found.They also did environmental analyzes, but everything was correct, there was no special contamination and, in fact, the twins are born healthy and without any problem worth mentioning.The last option is that it is something in the water or food which causes mothers to have multiple pregnancies.In short, do not know the origin but experts in the area have promised to continue investigating.

STUPEFACT Scientists! More and more twins in India!

At the moment, what they have done in Kodinhi is to create a twin association and family members.This help association in both births and education and the costs of two members at the same time to these low-income families .

STUPEFACT Scientists! More and more twins in India!

In addition to Kodinhi and Candido Godo i, in Brazil, southwest of Nigeria, in the surroundings of Benin there is another population in which there is also an amazing number of twins, it is Igbo Ora .

Do you know other populations in which the number If you are interested in this topic, you may want to know about two curious cases of connection between twins.

Images: balu, Matt Kowalczyk, Mor, Ankur P , Amre

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