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Doppelgängers Don't Just Look Alike—They Also Share DNA. New research finds genetic and lifestyle similarities between unrelated pairs of “virtual twins” (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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[-] rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 months ago

How similar is DNA from convergent evolution animals?

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

well, at some point, everything is a crab.

so I would assume pretty similar.

great question though.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I mean, my uncle (who spent very little time with his bio father) has all the same mannerisms as him. As do I and my mother and one of my brothers. Some of it is that we inherited similar skeletal structure so our posture is similar. Some of it, I dunno.

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