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Photographing People Who Look Alike Oddly Makes Them Look Less Alike
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So they're not related? That's good, because I kind of need at least one of those pairs of look-alikes to make out.
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Most of these people "look alike" in the sense that they have the same glasses and haircuts and are wearing similar shirts.
4
Who knows...maybe even DNA has its limitations...starts repeating itself.
There are 6 or 7 billion of us wandering around.
You can't be original every day.
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Some of the pairs look less alike than others but all of them could easily pass for siblings. I wonder if the effect would be as pronounced if these were color photos.
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@1 Some of them look like they're about to... and how can you blame them? I know if I met my doppelganger we'd be going at it in no time!
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Whether or not you are convinced that the Westermarck effect is real, I seem to remember that there were a few cases of genetic siblings or half-siblings reared apart who later met by chance and found themselves powerfully attracted to each other, whether by elements of physical resemblance or vocal patterns or philosophical outlook. A good case for adopted persons being able to run at least blind checks on parentage before pairing off.
That said, I would love to have a secret twin—even an unrelated one—and I have always felt the absence of the female miscarried fetus who came and went precisely between my strange and difficult brother and me.
That said, I would love to have a secret twin—even an unrelated one—and I have always felt the absence of the female miscarried fetus who came and went precisely between my strange and difficult brother and me.
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@4 Two parents have a 1in 80 trillion chance of creating identical twins on each separate kid (barring any genetic mutations) and they are using identical dna going into each of them. Odds are low.
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