As John Lizza explains, the biological definition of humanity has difficulty accommodating the extreme cases. Consider Abigail and Brittany Hensel, healthy conjoined twins fused at the pelvis, sharing one blood stream, one liver, one reproductive system, one small intestine, and one large intestine, but with two stomachs (and two very different sets of tastes), two sets of lungs, two hearts, two heads, two brains, and two personalities.
[Thanks to Burgess Shale for the link.]
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Thank you for posting the link.Im a new fan...thanks
This isn't related, but could relink the gecko suit article? Man, that thing is cool.
There's this one and this one. I honestly don't remember linking to a gecko suit story. Sadly, the CNET article says that a Spiderman-style suit is out of reach at the moment.
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