[HN Gopher] The controversial company using DNA to sketch the fa... ___________________________________________________________________ The controversial company using DNA to sketch the faces of criminals Author : DamnInteresting Score : 3 points Date : 2020-09-11 15:34 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.nature.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.nature.com) | supernova87a wrote: | To what extent do genes encode the facial features that make them | distinctly recognizable to us? Is there a way to say it as a "%"? | | I can certainly see how your basic head size/shape and position | of nose/mouth/eyes, etc is baked in there somehow. | | But I'd love to know, the fundamentals of why you look like your | parents, what is that? Certain (75%?) placement of facial | features locked in by genes, so of course you look like them, but | then the last 25% up to developmental noise? (Example -- | fingerprints, almost completely determined by developmental | noise, right?) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-09-12 23:00 UTC)