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Part of what makes genetics so interesting is that a lot of their effects aren't visible. But some people can learn a lot about their biological inheritance by simply comparing themselves to their ancestors.
Shelby Contra, 23, is one of them. Recently, she tweeted photos of herself and her grandmother to show just how similar the two looked when they were about the same age. "Grandma's genes really hit copy n paste huh," Shelby captioned the pics.
Her tweet went viral and nearly 555K people have already liked it, leaving over 1.1K responses. Many of which are their own side-by-side images that show their uncanny cross-generational resemblance. Continue scrolling and check out some of the craziest ones!
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#1
A friend of mine took this picture at a clinic. Rare condition from mother to daughter.
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Rare condition. Oh, the incredible eyes. Different colors for both. Beautiful.
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William Palmateer 5 years ago
So beautiful, so very beautiful. The face that launched 1000 ships. Beautifully warm and symmetrical, but more a wonderful smile you warm my heart. Thank you for sharing. WFP :-)
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My friend's newborn baby was born with the same birthmark in her hair as her mother.
Karen Johnston 5 years ago
I've known people with a white spot in their hair like this. Never knew it was a birthmark! Thanks for the info!
Carole Reid 5 years ago
Mom is gorgeous after having just given birth. I always looked like something from a Woody Allen movie.
tuzdayschild 5 years ago
At first I was thinking, that's not a birthmark, that a tattoo. Then my brain woke up.
D-m Keilman 5 years ago
A coworkers son has a white hair birthmark in the shape of a perfect heart. It's quite cool.
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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
There's still enough difference around the chin and lips, but very close indeed
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I have a hereditary gap in my eyebrow. It’s a portrait of my great great grandfather on the left, my dad also has the gap as well. It doesn’t always show, I guess because my eyebrows are kinda unruly and curly so sometimes the gap is covered, I also sometimes fill them especially because I’ve had people ask if I shaved the gap to be “cool”.
Meyer Weinstock 5 years ago
Genetics are sometimes like a craps shoot: who knows what the dice will roll?
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Colleen Garland 5 years ago
The resemblance in general is fantastic. In that many generations it usually "spreads out" the genes. She's beautiful. How do you tie a bow that small though?
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
She has to carry a photo of the painting around with her. Such an interesting trait.
Tracey Hirt 5 years ago
My daughter has that same gap on her eyebrow! Now sure where she got it from; no one else in the family has it.
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My brother-in-law got a thumb from each parent.
stripper dream 5 years ago
Oh wow. That's half amazing and half freaky. Well done, genetic code!
Helena Meykens Rajewski 5 years ago
Actually the right tumb, thats a symptom of a certain health condition. So he inhereted the syndrome from his father. ..apperantly.
Fiona Huisman 5 years ago
Actually he has brachydactyly type D on his right thumb. The parent on the right has not...
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My daughter and I have the same dimple in our foreheads.
Carole Reid 5 years ago
My grandma always said that belly button was where God poked you to see if you were done. Maybe He wanted one more test.
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William Palmateer 5 years ago
so beautiful wow, now that's a woman. You are so beautiful I would love to hold you.Sincerely, William
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Like father like son. Love you pops.
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troufaki13 5 years ago
Ιn Greece we say "the father was asleep during the conception" when the child doesn't get anything from him!
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
I love this. That's what you get when you don't participate well. Kid looks like the parent that tried hardest. that just got weird because I look just like my mom.
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William Palmateer 5 years ago
What a great smile. You both have all beauty behind. Thank you for sharing :-)
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Visual representation of genetics.
CParks 5 years ago
I honestly thought they all had cleft lip, I felt so confused as to why they weren't repaired etc.
Perfumista Perfumista 5 years ago
If grandma was not in the pic I would have thought this was a lip deformity
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NavyDave 5 years ago
Maybe you shouldn't use the term "black heart" when talking about racism...
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Carole Reid 5 years ago
He is getting an awful lot of attention. Someone will smack him down to size.
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Leslie Wofkman 5 years ago
Click on the offenders name - it takes you to his profile. 3 dots upper right corner, you can report them for being offensive.
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Holden Thomson 5 years ago
I created an account just to downvote this racist guys' comment. It is a fine picture.
Drew Garza 5 years ago
Woah. Excuse me sir, your racist a*****e side is showing. Might want to cover that up. Have a wonderful day.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
Why is it that racists always seem to be able to tell what "race" someone is?
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Aria Whitaker 5 years ago
BP, WHY is Lester's account still allowed? That is at LEAST 5 racial slurs that I have counted in this post alone!! Geesh.
Chris DiFonso 5 years ago
Please delete Lester Freake's comments ("bean n***er") and, better yet, please ban him from BP
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Fairsher 5 years ago
lol I was going to same the exact thing! but could not think of the correct word hahaa ty
Load More Replies... Khadeeja1982 5 years ago
I am on Bored Panda a lot and I have never come across so much hate, vitriol and ignorance before as I have encountered here today. I am shocked and appalled - which holes did all these racist a******s crawl out of?? Horrible! I have probably only ever reported one comment before but today, especially in this post here, the worst of the worst seem to gather. Lester Freake, ....., and all you other weak, sad, cowards, take your hate elsewhere. This here, this community is about positivity and love and support.
Justine Nicole 5 years ago
I peeped Lesters Facebook, a bunch of pictures saying sad things like "I'll never be good enough" "I wish I belonged somewhere" and " Sometimes you just need someone to tell you you're not as terrible as you think you are." Just... wow.
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Candace Sunlight 5 years ago
all you idiots spewing c**p and mean words: shut up. just be quiet.
Seabeast 5 years ago
I'm baffled by trolls. What do they get out of being arseholes, anyway?
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Sang Fe 5 years ago
What's with the rude little thimble d***s making the horrid comments? Oh wait...just answered my own question, nm.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
I love that insult. Thimble d***s. Also could use thimble-dicked, hehe
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Stephanie Spear 5 years ago
TF is with people's replies here? Lady, you look great and just like your mom!
Adriana_Slayz 5 years ago
All the people that are spreading hate need to shut up! I'm 12 years old and I'm more responsible than u guys are!? You are adults spreading hate to people on social media like 5 year olds while I'm here about to make some money!!! You people are sickening and devils. I CAN'T believe the fact that you have to have a 12 year old girl tell you right from wrong in this manner. It's really sad!
Fred Bigox 5 years ago
Why are YOU about to make some money from posting comments.
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Nicole nutt 5 years ago
My comment lame was to Lester the arrow pointed down to him sorry for the misunderstanding I think she is beautiful I have 5 daughters myself and I was appalled by his comment
comboplush 5 years ago
I love how the pattern of her shirt matches the pattern of the wallpaper. Genes are indeed pretty weird!
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Leesa DeAndrea 5 years ago
I look like my grandpa. It's even more pronounced now that I am elderly. It's not a good look for a female though, LOL.
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Benny Best 5 years ago
is anyone else confused that she said i didnt realise it until my grandpa passed and then called her grandpa a she?
Jordi Couturier 5 years ago
I'm assuming they found the picture of her Grandmother, after her grandfather passed.
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comboplush 5 years ago
Aw she looks so warm and genuinely friendly, like a person you'd like to be friends with for life. What a loving smile!
Kat Khatib 5 years ago
Grandpa died. Grandma had been gone a long time or he had remarried. It wasn't until Grandpa passed that they went thru his things and found Grandma Barbara's picture.
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Jo Bebe 5 years ago
I can barely see the one on the left? Not sure if they look alike or not ...?
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Jim Ellington 5 years ago
You could put the photo on the left next to a lot of things and they would appear similar.
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Sancho Cruz 5 years ago
I hope so he's a special kind of b***h.. real simple..
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Tracey Hirt 5 years ago
For people wondering what "Maxheim" is, it's a photographer and photo restoration company. This is likely a proof given for approval before they ordered prints.
Elizabeth Smith 5 years ago
I think we need to....bigotry and hatred is not acceptable here or anywhere
Leslea Freeman 5 years ago
The guy on the right looks like Seal if he were to cut his hair! Those cheek bones are so high!! Very attractive!
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NevadaJo 5 years ago
If he see this he can send me a message and we can exchange emails. I haven't been doing them long enough to do extensive repairs but I'd be willing to try restoring it.
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Kiss Army 5 years ago
Some people have to make themselves feel better by putting others down...
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Colleen Garland 5 years ago
You really all do look alike. Not a bad thing for families you love.
Elizabeth Smith 5 years ago
Evidently Rodney and his cohorts don't have anything more productive to do
Michael Dworkin-Robertson 5 years ago
Rodney, you shitstain, has it occured to you that she is a girl, talking about her brother and her father...you are so disgusting...please, end yourself so that others NEVER have to encounter your racist, bigotted a*s...
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
I love this. My brother and I have the facial structure of a great aunt.
Damon Gates 5 years ago
Get a clue, Rodney - the person on the far right (yes, a girl) is posting a picture of HER brother and HER father!
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Fred Bigox 5 years ago
You're bith beautiful but i dont see the genes multiplicaton. Maybe put a pic from side like hers to show it more.
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Rosie Hamilton 5 years ago
The upper half of the face is similar - they have quite different jaw lines.
Seabeast 5 years ago
Well, after three generations, you don't share many genes. It's split between eight great grandparents.
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Prakash Khanal 5 years ago
Girl u need to carry same confidence in eye to be exact replica of your great grant. No where near I thought
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April Simnel 5 years ago
Grandpa's reminding me of Donald O'Connor, the Old Hollywood tap dancer and actor.
JOHANNA MUELLER 5 years ago
I don’t if it’s the undeveloped quality or what but people in black and white photos always seem to have perfect skin
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Pebblesmax 5 years ago
In each new generation you shake up all the DNA and out comes the identical beauty
Nico Viola 5 years ago
Does anyone see the resemblance of the picture on the right with the person who plays callie torres?
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Leslea Freeman 5 years ago
Why do you keep commenting on them? Just ignore them! It is like you want to find them on every thread! Just shut the hell up about it and report it rather then saying " No Lester & Rodney here today"?????? Whew! Shut UP!!
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deanna woods 5 years ago
Does anyone know what to do about the people making rude and inappropriate comments?
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Rodney..what? Maybe you should just go do something else.
NevadaJo 5 years ago
Rodney should've thought twice about using his real name. Would be a shame is someone posted his profile on all the racist reporting groups on Facebook.
Elizabeth Smith 5 years ago
Negative and/or racist comments are not wanted here. We come on this site for feel good stuff, not to deal with your idiotic BS. Go away, get a therapist or move to Germany and join the Nazi underground
Katharina Magali Gottsmann 5 years ago
No thanks, don't want them racists in germany
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TheJammyBeast 5 years ago
Lester F*** off with your racist bullsh*t. It's certainly not welcome here or anywhere else for that matter. Take your white hood to hell.
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Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
What's handsome on him is pretty on her. Cheeks, jaw, smile, eyes but not brows.
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Karen Johnston 5 years ago
I'm kind of not seeing it as well. Maybe it's more a matter of movements? Both super cute, though.
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Laira Cruz 5 years ago
Lester why don't you just shut up and go die in a deep, deep hole where no one will miss you?????
Justine Nicole 5 years ago
I peeped his Facebook, a bunch of pictures saying sad things like "I'll never be good enough" "I wish I belonged somewhere" and " Sometimes you just need someone to tell you you're not as terrible as you think you are." Just... wow.
Load More Replies... Michael Dworkin-Robertson 5 years ago
lester, go back to playing your banjo and your livestock, you human shitstain...we are tired of hearing your racist, bigoted rhetoric...
Khadeeja1982 5 years ago
Just p**s off, Lester. No one gives a damn about your so-called "opinion".
Colleen Garland 5 years ago
The make-up makes a huge difference in appearances so it's harder to tell. Mom left her with a lot to work with though.
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Kat Khatib 5 years ago
....because you look EXACTLY like your Mom! I would think it's you too!
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
The twist: the first photo is actually showing the birth of the subject of the second photo.
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Kat Khatib 5 years ago
I love your mom's 80's shoulder pads!!...my favorite decade! You & your mom do look alike.
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Leslea Freeman 5 years ago
Yup, I see a bit of Demi Moore in Momma's picture!
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Michael Dworkin-Robertson 5 years ago
EVERYBODY, let's really ignore rodney and lester...obviously, they thrive on people engaging them...they think that they actually are popular...when they are miserable little bigots that don't deserve any attention...i know, it's hard not to answer, but instead of addressing comments to them, lets just speak about them...do you notice that neither of them allow for anyone to "reply" to them...talk about cowards!
Michael Dworkin-Robertson 5 years ago
OK rodney...i just saw YOUR PICTURE, and now i understand why you are filled with such negative hate...YOU RACIST, IGNORANT, DISGUSTING BASTARD
Nina F. Razad 5 years ago
That's my first thought exactly: these are sisters. Well, you inherit her beauty, indeed.
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CharliAnn Olney 5 years ago
Don't know if I can ask this, but is your Mom's name Stephanie? Had the nickname Petey as a teen?
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deanna woods 5 years ago
My mom has a gap in her tooth and she thinks it looks weird. I don't think that though.
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago (edited)
And the cheeseus crust. That is hilarious!
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Zoe Murphy 5 years ago
To them looking the same? Cause I agree I think the mouth and MAYBE eyes
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Your daughter is going to be a force to be reckoned with when she gets older!
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Nicole nutt 5 years ago
Wow people with nothing better to do must be pretty lonely if this is what you do for fun get a life you'd think by your age you'd have one, just ignorant
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D-m Keilman 5 years ago
Idk. With that much photoshop anyone can look similar. Beautiful women tho.
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Sumara 5 years ago
I don't come on Bored Panda to see racist comments. Lester Freake needs to be blocked.
deanna woods 5 years ago
I agree 1000%. It seems that over the last few months that more and more racist people are coming on here just to spew hate.
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Celeste Grant 5 years ago
Can not believe the racism displayed on this post. Bored Panda need to act immediately. This should not be tolerated; so many people here are standing up and calling this out. We don't not accept these racist attitudes as part of our collective society here and demand these people are removed.
Jo Choto 5 years ago
Genetics is fascinating, which traits stay strong throughout the generations. We are lucky enough to have photos going back four/five generations from me. On my maternal side, all the women have the same chin. It's weird to look at my chin and then at a great-great relative and see my chin on her face, or see her chin on my face.
Tracey Hirt 5 years ago
Please stop engaging the troll. If you look at this profile, all the comments are designed to start c**p. Don't give him the attention he is seeking, and he will go away.
Jace 5 years ago
That’s why more than three downvotes hides posts. It should hide their user name too.
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DamnBecky 5 years ago (edited)
One grandmother was Miss Texas, the other was a VA pinup girl during WWII. I think those genes got diluted a bit getting to me.
sosunlight 5 years ago
What a fascinating history! I'm sure you're beautiful <3
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Mystery Egg 5 years ago
After my grandmother passed away in the late 90's, we were clearing her stuff and came across a photo of a lady in Victorian type clothing. The picture was very worn at the bottom and was on tin, not photographic paper. After some research, it was found that this was popular in the1860's-1870's. The lady in the picture is my doppleganger! If I donned Victorian garb you would not be able to spot the difference. Nobody knows who she was though. Sadly, anyone that would was long gone by the time we found the picture.
AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
my grandparents had 4 sons, and the other day I was talking to my dad and I realized that out of all the brothers, the more they age, the more my dad looks IDENTICAL to my grandfather. Makes me miss him even more.
Jack Chandra 5 years ago
We found a pic of a relative from the late 1800's Looks exactly like my brother.
Kim Lorton 5 years ago
I think genetics is so amazing! These genetic look a likes are fantastic pictures and everyone is beautiful! Stop trolling them, whoever you are! How about posting a pic of you? Would you like negative comments spread about you? I would think not. This was amazing to see! My favorite though, hands down, was the eyebrow genetic trait!
Sumara 5 years ago
I don't come on Bored Panda to see racist comments. Lester Freake needs to be blocked.
deanna woods 5 years ago
I agree 1000%. It seems that over the last few months that more and more racist people are coming on here just to spew hate.
Load More Replies... Celeste Grant 5 years ago
Can not believe the racism displayed on this post. Bored Panda need to act immediately. This should not be tolerated; so many people here are standing up and calling this out. We don't not accept these racist attitudes as part of our collective society here and demand these people are removed.
Jo Choto 5 years ago
Genetics is fascinating, which traits stay strong throughout the generations. We are lucky enough to have photos going back four/five generations from me. On my maternal side, all the women have the same chin. It's weird to look at my chin and then at a great-great relative and see my chin on her face, or see her chin on my face.
Tracey Hirt 5 years ago
Please stop engaging the troll. If you look at this profile, all the comments are designed to start c**p. Don't give him the attention he is seeking, and he will go away.
Jace 5 years ago
That’s why more than three downvotes hides posts. It should hide their user name too.
Load More Replies... DamnBecky 5 years ago (edited)
One grandmother was Miss Texas, the other was a VA pinup girl during WWII. I think those genes got diluted a bit getting to me.
sosunlight 5 years ago
What a fascinating history! I'm sure you're beautiful <3
Load More Replies... Mystery Egg 5 years ago
After my grandmother passed away in the late 90's, we were clearing her stuff and came across a photo of a lady in Victorian type clothing. The picture was very worn at the bottom and was on tin, not photographic paper. After some research, it was found that this was popular in the1860's-1870's. The lady in the picture is my doppleganger! If I donned Victorian garb you would not be able to spot the difference. Nobody knows who she was though. Sadly, anyone that would was long gone by the time we found the picture.
AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
my grandparents had 4 sons, and the other day I was talking to my dad and I realized that out of all the brothers, the more they age, the more my dad looks IDENTICAL to my grandfather. Makes me miss him even more.
Jack Chandra 5 years ago
We found a pic of a relative from the late 1800's Looks exactly like my brother.
Kim Lorton 5 years ago
I think genetics is so amazing! These genetic look a likes are fantastic pictures and everyone is beautiful! Stop trolling them, whoever you are! How about posting a pic of you? Would you like negative comments spread about you? I would think not. This was amazing to see! My favorite though, hands down, was the eyebrow genetic trait!
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