Mom, Dod, Is That You?

"Whether comparing a man and a woman or a parent and a baby, we can still see when two people of different age or sex are genetically related," reports MedicalNewsToday. "How do we know that people are part of a family? Findings from a new study published in the Journal of VisionRead more. increases our understanding of the brain's ability to see through these underlying variations in facial structure. ...As described in the paper, (Relative faces: Encoding of family resemblance relative to gender means in face space), researchers conducted two experiments using original and synthesized cross-gender 'sibling' faces that resemble each other and 'anti-sibling' faces that have the opposite characteristics of the original face."