Blind Relatives Prove Facial Expressions Are Inherited

From Scientific American: Blind Relatives Prove Facial Expressions Are Inherited

A blind young man shares his mother's habit of compressing his lips together when puzzled, despite never having seen her face. This is just one of the examples cited as part of a study published online today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA showing that relatives who have never seen one another nonetheless share similar facial expressions–proof that even a grimace may be hereditary.


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