A Canadian photographer's photo series capturing strangers meeting their doppelgangers has inspired scientists to explore how seemingly unrelated strangers can look so similar.
After finding his own look-alike, Quebec photographer Francois Brunelle became inspired to unite strangers with their own doppelgangers.
After photographing a few people who looked similar to each other, he reached out through social media to find more subjects and quickly became overwhelmed with the response. In some instances, appearance wasn’t the only thing his photo subjects had in common. Brunelle said he photographed two women who not only looked alike but got a tattoo in the same shop, share the same birthday and live in the same apartment building.Geneticists from the Josep Carreras Leukemia Research Institute in Spain became inspired by Brunelle’s photo series to understand the genetics of two people who look identical but aren’t blood related.
Riskin explained that twins share similar epigenetic profiles and microbiomes in their DNA. But this study found although identical-looking strangers might have similarities in their DNA, they don’t share the exact same patterns.
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