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• The Genetics of Why You Look Like Your Great Aunt Mildred

  By Bob Holmes Verified| Scientific American Verified When Eric Mueller, who was adopted, first saw a photograph of his birth mother, he was overcome by how alike their faces were. It was, he wrote, “the first time I ever saw someone who looked like me.” The experience led Mueller, a photographer in Minneapolis, into a three-year project to photograph hundreds of sets of related people, culminating in the book Family Resemblance. Such resemblances are commonplace, of course — and they point to a strong underlying genetic influence on the face.

  By Bob Holmes Verified · Scientific American

  Dec. 20, 2023

• Select Board to host Dog Park Public Forum on Tuesday | Reading

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  By Daniel Husband, Bob Holmes Verified · By Daniel Husband, Bob Holmes

  Jul. 21, 2023

• The Genetics of Why You Look Like Your Great Aunt Mildred

  By Bob Holmes Verified| Scientific American Verified When Eric Mueller, who was adopted, first saw a photograph of his birth mother, he was overcome by how alike their faces were. It was, he wrote, “the first time I ever saw someone who looked like me.” The experience led Mueller, a photographer in Minneapolis, into a three-year project to photograph hundreds of sets of related people, culminating in the book Family Resemblance. Such resemblances are commonplace, of course — and they point to a strong underlying genetic influence on the face.

  By Bob Holmes Verified · Scientific American

  Dec. 20, 2023

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