All that and a single offhanded mention of epigenetics and no mention of methylation? I would guess that people who resemble me more than the average person wou

All that and a single offhanded mention of epigenetics and no mention of methylation? I would guess that people who resemble me more than the average person would not just have more of the same genes, but especially more of the same expressed genes. What do I know, though? I'm not a geneticist. That said, though, you've typed something so unless you're sitting for the Turing test soon I'd guess you do resemble me more than a box turtle does. Knowing that features are influenced by genes, the idea that similar features imply similar genes is a very simple hypothesis to make. I'm a little puzzled why it's so interesting to test whether genetics and epigenetics influence appearance in 2022. To me, it's near meaningless unless they start with a very strict definition of resemblance. Is it based on some measurement or someone's subjective interpretation of who looks like whom? I'm not paying $4.25 a week to read TFA and I've been told I "look like" plenty of people I don't. There are two people I know of in the world who resembled me very closely at some point in my life. One was fairly local and I disbelieved he really looked so much like me until my own aunt approached him in public and he said he'd heard the same about me. The other was a guy I knew from a BBS (actually a talker, if anyone here knows what that is) who decided he had a crush on me and sent me a photo of himself. I printed it out, held it up beside my face, and my mother asked when I had that photo taken. Freaky resemblances do exist. Should I be surprised that the people who looked like me are closer genetically and possibly in traceable genealogy than another human of another gender, another nationality, another ethnicity, another culture, and another society?