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Individual Uniqueness

Once a human is conceived and aborted, what are the odds against ever conceiving the same human again?

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With the exception of identical twins, the odds against a woman conceiving a genetically identical child twice are more than one in 10 to the 600th power. For a sense of scale, there are roughly 10 to the 80th atoms in the known universe. Even identical twins have epigenetic differences that make each of them biologically unique, thus making it impossible to ever conceive the same human again.




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