You have no sense of subtle similarity, do you? You know, general shapes and such? They very much look alike, and very obviously related. It would be wild if that were the mom’s younger doppelgänger.
You're kind of both right. Its because of the way your brain processes faces. For the most part it uses face ratios, the height, width, & distance between features, not the shape of individual features. Then if that ratio matches someone in your memory or if you're consciously studying a face, it analyzes feature shape. That's why the more you look at the pic, the less alike they look. If you look at each feature separately by covering up the rest of the face you can more easily see how different they are. But, because they have almost identical facial ratios they look very similar and you can definitely tell they're related.
But that’s the thing, knowing they are related, why scrutinize over the details? You lose the original intent of the post to begin with, which was to show that generally, they look very similar.
My reply was aimed at you guys but also at the op. The daughter doesn't think they look alike, so I explained why she might see it that way and why you two have a different perception as well.
Oh, I see now, I misinterpreted part of what you were saying. Speaking of perspectives, this is why high levels of communication are required to understand each other the best we can. My original comment may have been a bit biased. I retract my one-sidedness, and welcome the other perspective here.
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