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Stamets @lemmy.world

3w ago

Genetics

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Didn't know Genetics was so insecure they would project their own insecurities onto others.
- You can only do so many paternity tests before you start seeing the world differently.

Whatever the political motives/lack of logic behind it, these faces look like they are related by blood.
- Same nose, same eye-shape, similar chin, and rapidly rushing towards similar hairlines. If these two aren't related, that's a huge coincidence.
  Also, childhood malnutrition is a removed and will absolutely cause something like this.
  
  Yup. There are a million causes for stunted growth that aren't inherited. And these two look the same if you overlook the height and age.
- Geneticist here. There are a number of factors that go into determining a person's facial features. Genetics, of course, play a huge role. But other things such as ...

- This is hilarious, but I had a friend when I was really young. He was black and adopted by a white family. He got this joke (or not a joke) all the time and I could see it wear on him
  
  Not to mention it actually does happen by birth very rarely. Latent genetic traits can pop up generations later.

Genetics is, in fact, a science, and it allows for offspring to grow to be bigger than their parents.
- Especially if the parent has a condition that stunts their growth.

Not pictured: the tall Amazonian woman that's his mother.

Nobody tell him...

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