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>Do newborns have a standardized brain structure?

No.

Genetic diversity due to isolation of cultures in their environments over the eons has made this impossible.



Still - do twins have the same/similar brain structure?


I would think those are the newborns who start out as close as you can get.


Indeed - and yet I'd think it's not close at all. I bet there is going to be the same level of variation as compared to relative differences between unrelated humans.


I would say it depends on what you call close.

The differences between unrelated newborns would be both genetic & environmental, compared to the identical genetics and nearly identical environments of the twins.

From which point all would begin to diverge further.




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