Mirror on the wall? Celebrity look-alikes
Patrick and Diamond Platnumz [Photo: Courtesy]
Just how can people who don’t share any biological lineage, ethnicity or nationality look-alike? Could be because the bible tells us on good authority that we all came from Adam and Eve and even your wife could thus be your sibling? But does everyone have a doppelganger? There’s a fairly decent chance of it, actually, thanks to the limited number of genes that influence facial features.
Michael Sheehan, an assistant professor of neurobiology and behaviour at Cornell University, USA, told the journal
Nature that “there is only so much genetic diversity to go around,” said the scholar who studies appearance variations and genetics in species such as paper wasps and house mice. “If you shuffle that deck of cards so many times, at some point, you get the same hand dealt with you twice.”