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Developmental noise will be dominated by fetal development, not life after birth.

• ashtonkem 6y ago
  Which probably isn’t directly encoded into your dna, but rather epigenetic markers which may or may not be easily collected and quantified.
• liability 6y ago
  Maybe so, but fathers can look a great deal like sons and they only share something like half their code and don't share a womb at all. Identical twins share their code and look even more alike. I think later life matters like obesity probably make a bigger difference. Being fat or gaunt can dramatically change somebody's appearance. Grooming habits as well. Spies deliberately adopting disguises can make themselves look quite different by modifying these sort of things.
• asdff 6y ago
  Not necessarily. Fitness, sun, sleep, alcohol, drugs, diet, smoking, and stress are some examples of environmental factors that can influence your appearance including your face after birth.