[HN Gopher] The controversial company using DNA to sketch the fa...
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       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?)
        
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