Was just looking up the stats for the Thompson twins since I think they’re both going to make a splash in the NBA over the next few years.
Turns out Amen (6’7 / 201cm) is taller than his IDENTICAL twin brother Ausar (6’6 / 198cm).
I didn’t even think this was possible since they have the same genetics and presumably had the same health and diet growing up.
Yeah, it can happen. It’s nature vs nurture, both within the womb and the early stages outside of the womb, that can impact differences in height between identical twins.
Ausar may have a little more weight now but Amen has a little bigger frame too. He’s gonna end up the bigger guy which was something that also led to he being viewed slightly more highly than Ausar.
there is something called epigenetics which means that 1 slight alteration in the DNA functioning could have affected either man positively or negatively
Yes this does mean that the height YOU (whoever you are reading this) could have been an inch or 2 taller or shorter depending on certain things that uniquely happened in your life
Perhaps that extra swimming triggered a growth spurt or perhaps your excessive love of cheese triggered a stop in the growth spurt…nobody knows for sure
That’s really interesting!
The nutrition thing would make sense because thats where persood food preferences can be vastly different
My doctor confidently told me I’d be around 5’11 when I was growing up. Fuck him for getting my hopes up.
Should have swam more
Ausar is 5 pounds heavier
I told my dad about this and he punched the wall, now we’re in A + E so thanks very much for that.
I dropped to my knees in the Home Depot when I heard the news.
That’s a far healthier reaction. My dad’s a great guy, he cares for a menagerie of birds that we keep underground and he’ll only eat them once they die, but this is the third time in a month that he has overreacted to a Reddit post. It would be easier not to show him the posts but he’s very insistent and resorts to tears and suicide blackmail if I don’t acquiesce.
Like 5.5 hours left. Let em fly.
Ausar Thompson is gonna be way better
Why bother with this rn?
Amen is taller
BUT MY GUY IS GOING TO BE BETTER!!!
Whew, finish picking out those pubes out your mouth…
it’s actually very very very common for identical twins to not actually be entirely identical
I get weight, hair, complexion. All the sort of flexibile characteristics. But I didn’t think something immutable like height could differ.
Height isn’t “immutable” a lot of things can affect your growth including health, diet, sleep, etc.
You also can’t trust the nba with heights