The Minnesota Study of Identical Twins Reared Apart:)!!!

In 1979, Thomas Joseph Bouchard, Jr. started one the most controversial and famous twin studies in history. It all started when Bouchard came across a pair of twins named Jim Springer and Jim Lewis. These pair of twins had been separated from birth and were reunited at the age of thirty-nine. The twins Bouchard described had found and married women named Linda, divorced, and married for the second time women named Betty. One of the twins had named his only son James Alan, and the other had named him James Allan as well. They both owned dog pets named Toy. After realizing the coincidence and magnitude of this twins history Bouchard arranged to study the pair. He assembled a team and applied for the Pioneer Fund suggesting his findings had a very strong generic influence on almost all medical and psychological traits. When the fund was allowed his work became known as the Minnesota Study of Identical Twins Reared Apart (MISTRA).

This study became to be documented not only by Bouchard but also by the Time, U.S News, New York Times and World Report among others. The final study concluded that an identical twin reared away from his co-twin seems to have an equal chance of being similar to the co-twin in personality, interests and attitude. This leads to the big fact that similarities between twins are due to genes and that the environment does not affect or play a big roll. I believe this was an amazing experiment that showed the world the reality about twins and their similarities and the fact that the experiment was completely ethical makes it even closer to perfection.