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A selfie of American senator Chris Coons (left) and German chancellor Olaf Scholz, who have been noted to resemble each other [1]. A look-alike, or double, is a person who bears a strong physical resemblance to another person, excluding cases like twins and other instances of family resemblance.
That got me thinking about all the other celebrities who look so much alike it's scary. Some have the same hair, others have totally different hair but the same facial features.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, How They Met Themselves, watercolour, 1864. A doppelgänger [a] (/ ˈ d ɒ p əl ɡ ɛ ŋ ər,-ɡ æ ŋ-/ DOP-əl-gheng-ər, -gang-), sometimes spelled doppelgaenger or doppelganger, is a ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts its own fleshly counterpart.
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The 8-year-old identical twins from Los Angeles have quickly amassed quite the internet following -- over 1.5 million on Instagram, to be exact! -- thanks to their gorgeous looks.
There is evidence of heritability in personality traits. For example, one study found that approximately half of personality differences in high-school aged fraternal and identical twins were due to genetic variation - and another study suggests that no one personality trait is more heritable than another. [6] [8]
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No two humans are genetically identical. Even monozygotic twins (who develop from one zygote) have infrequent genetic differences due to mutations occurring during development and gene copy-number variation. [1] Differences between individuals, even closely related individuals, are the key to techniques such as genetic fingerprinting.