You're telling me people whose genetics make them look similar have similar genetics???

It seems this includes genes that don't play a direct role in the formation of facial features.

Yes, but it's not necessarily the only way that would work. So this is very neat!

It is still interesting. I wonder if epigenetics plays a larger role, or if face look is tied to other random traits.

I would say it's even smaller in number. Because some combinations would not work and might kill you.

Yes, but the article says that certain combinations occur more often that if it was random. People with similar faces tend to have similar genes that are nor related to facial features.

That's not exactly true. A lot of DNA is redundant, and a lot of DNA is dead code that doesn't do anything.

Yes but how much?

So that's why I want to make people lamp shades so bad? /s

I don't think it's about a DNA match. Those people you mention could share more DNA than the rest of us, which could account for their similarities, but their DNA will never "match" anyone else's.

I don't have a great answer other than of the 32 studied, these were their stratification:

Related to population stratification, among the 16 look-alike pairs, 13 were of European ancestry, 1 Hispanic, 1 East Asian, and 1 Central-South Asian.

Source: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(22)01075-0

But whether people who look close enough to perform as another, such as the "Chinese Obama" (Xiao Jiguo) I can't say.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/chinese-president-barack-obama-lookalike-xiao-jiguo-charges-1-500-n444251

Then there's Indonesia's former president, Joko Widodo:

https://nextshark.com/people-love-indonesias-president-looks-like-barack-obama

It would be interesting to get the researchers to analyze their DNA.

they all look the same..

thinks some alien, prolly

I mean there's this town in rural [state my family had a farm in but now we don't hallelujah farm work is hard] that everyone looks like me because, well, go back far enough and all 500 of them and me are related. First time I went to the old farm it was frightening. Like walking into a clone factory.

There are only so many permutations of topological entanglement!

7 colors × 6 directions = 42 types of individual entanglement within the topological matrix we are not IN but rather ARE

I mean, my uncle (who spent very little time with his bio father) has all the same mannerisms as him. As do I and my mother and one of my brothers. Some of it is that we inherited similar skeletal structure so our posture is similar. Some of it, I dunno.

well, at some point, everything is a crab.

so I would assume pretty similar.

great question though.

Genetics, I can understand. But lifestyles? How?

Thats plain rediculous. How can I possibly find someone good enough looking then?

This is why my sister and I always use protection.

I mean, iirc there’s no genetic reason first cousins shouldn’t have kids, I doubt third cousins would be a problem.

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