One theory is that ALL such incidents of 2 headed births is environmental...
Aasif Mandvi uncovers a far-reaching corporate conspiracy involving two-headed fish, a giant agribusiness called Simplot, and the pollution of Idaho's rivers...
... and although pollution could definitely be a factor (and probably is, given the way genes combine with each other), I doubt pollution will explain ALL such births.
To some degree, 2 headed animals MUST have been born throughout our recorded history... and non-recorded history as they are too common across the WHOLE planet for it to be our pollution to be the reason for all cases.
Two headed cat
Another two headed cat - well, kitten...
Have you ever played Chinese Whispers? Well, what if events in the past have been distorted through rumor or just plain story telling (for kids and adults) and it was this distortion and amplification(as Joseph Campbell explains in his book 'Primitive Mythology' about 'Super Normal Stimuli'), that led to the mythological images of, say, Ancient Greece...
About Cerberus (3 Headed Dog from Greek Mythology)
Definition: The three-headed, serpent-tailed dog Cerberus was the offspring of Echidna and Typhon. (In Greek mythology, parents didn't necessarily resemble their offspring.) In one of the main sources on Greek mythological figures, Hesiod's Theogony, Cerberus had not 3, but 50 heads.
Medusa... offshoot of Cerberus?
(i.e. a mythic result of super-normal stimuli?)
(i.e. a mythic result of super-normal stimuli?)
(Image from here)
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