Extreme Lookalikes May Share Much Deeper Ties Than We Ever Realized

Science Alert ^ | 24 August 2022 | By CARLY CASSELLA

[Red Badger]

I have lived in many places in this country and met many people in my 67 years and have noticed that people who resemble other people I have known tend to be like those other people even though there is no connection to them hundreds of miles and years away...................

[algore]

Not super surprising.

[teeman8r]

i had a friend who would categorize people into tribes... for those who looked alike... if you are one in a million, than there are about 8000 identical to you out there.

[Red Badger]

I must have a very ‘common’ face, because even though I have lived in various places, everywhere I have been mistaken for someone else, even had a guy come up to me and start talking to me like he knew me his whole life and it took him at least a couple on minutes before he realized I was not his friend.................

[BenLurkin]

Papa was a rolling stone.....

[FamiliarFace]

My three children have all been mistaken for others (usually famous people) at some point or another. The oldest resembles (or did at one time) Adam Levine, and he hates the comparison. My daughter has been chased by paparazzi for resembling Rashida Jones. Our youngest has been told he looks like a young Tom Petty. I guess it can be a curse or a blessing.

[maddog55]

Not surprising:

[Red Badger]

I’ve never been mistaken for somebody famous, except Fidel Castro when I was 22..........................

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger. It's that common ancestor, Luke O'Thedraw, he's the culprit.

[Red Badger]

OR somebody be hidin’ in the woodpile....................😉

[Governor Dinwiddie]

One tribe all look alike to me.

[teeman8r]

my brother and i look a lot alike and he has had some embarrassing situations with strangers coming up to him and massaging his shoulders... hehehe

[teeman8r]

justin trudeau is that you?

[bk1000]

“ DNA analyses of 16 look-alike couples have revealed some unrelated people with super similar faces also have similar heights, weights, habits, and behaviors.”

So people who resemble each other resemble each other. That’s about it, right?

[Red Badger]

Nope, I don’t speak French!....................😎

[Red Badger]

😜😉.................................

[GOPJ]

Interesting story - - made better by your freeper name...

[ComputerGuy]

God has a large number of different cookie-cutters He uses for creating men. It’s a large, but finite, number. With women, choices are far more limited. For instance, they all get the same model of brain.

[SunkenCiv]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095654/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_77

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

This fits in with the notion of that the difference between the races is not color. In fact, color may be the least consequential aspect of the differences in the races. We are not fusing into a singular population, we are actually slowly diffusing. Blacks and whites were more or less from the same culture in the 50s. 70 years later we are more Balkanized and different than ever. Indeed, in 1962 it was possible for a black baby boy to grow up to be president. Today? Maybe less so.