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Your tongue is not a simple genetic test. πŸ‘…
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Science Gone WrongOct 16, 2026

Your tongue is not a simple genetic test. πŸ‘…

Your tongue is not a simple genetic test. πŸ‘… . . . In 1940, Alfred Sturtevant proposed that tongue rolling behaved like an inherited dominant trait. Philip Matlock tested 33 pairs of identical twins in 1952 and found 7 pairs disagreed. The classroom genetics trick could not pass its own twin test.

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Journal of Heredity, 1952, 'Identical Twins and Tongue-Rolling'

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