Whenever a set of twins is born, one is released and the other is allowed to live. The way they determine which one lives is by weighing them. Whichever one weighs more, no matter by how small a margin, is kept and the other is released. We find this out towards the end of Chapter 14.
The reason they do this is because they need to have the right number of kids born in their society each year. If they allow twins to live, they will have too many kids and there might not be enough food for everyone.
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