Facial Morphology: Face Genes Identified
Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 17:50
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Variation in facial shape is an easy way to explain phenotypes in humans to people who don't understand biology all that well. Monozygotic twins have almost identical faces and siblings usually have more similar faces than unrelated people, implying our facial morphology is under genetic regulation - but still little has been known about the genetic basis of normal human facial morphology. read more