What did the suspect look like? With the discovery of five genes involved in facial form, perhaps one day the police won't need eyewitnesses or surveillance cameras - all they'd need is a little bit of DNA:
Lead author Manfred Kayser from the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, said: "These are exciting first results that mark the beginning of the genetic understanding of human facial morphology.
"Perhaps some time it will be possible to draw a phantom portrait of a person solely from his or her DNA left behind, which provides interesting applications such as in forensics."
Link | The study over at PLoS Genetics
loop back around, prove phrenology,
and then the whole internets asplode!