Differential facial resemblance of young children to their parents: who do children look like more?

Alvergne, Alexandra; Faurie, Charlotte; Raymond, Michel

doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2006.08.008

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“…3 This is possible because parent-child resemblance is sufficiently present in children for it to be detected from as early as birth (Porter et al, 1984;McLain et al, 2000;Alvergne et al, 2007;Kaminski et al, 2010). Experiment-based evidence of paternal involvement corroborates this.…”

Section: Child Resemblance and Paternal Investmentmentioning

confidence: 95%

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If looks could heal: Child health and paternal investment

Tracey

Polachek

2018

Journal of Health Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Any opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Research published in this series may include views on policy, but IZA takes no institutional policy positions. The IZA research network is committed to the IZA Guiding Principles of Research Integrity. The IZA Institute of Labor Economics is an independent economic research institute that conducts research in labor economics and offers evidence-based policy advice on labor market issues. Supported by the Deutsche Post Foundation, IZA runs the world's largest network of economists, whose research aims to provide answers to the global labor market challenges of our time. Our key objective is to build bridges between academic research, policymakers and society. IZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. parenting. An extra day (per month) of time-investment by a typical visiting father enhances child health by just over 10% of a standard deviation. This estimate is not biased by the effect of child health on father-involvement or omitted maternal ability, thereby eliminating endogeneity biases that plague existing studies. The result has implications regarding the role of a father's time in enhancing child health, especially in fragile families. Terms of use: Documents in JEL Classification:I12, J12, J13

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Section: Child Resemblance and Paternal Investmentmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…While resemblance may change over time (Alvergne et al, 2007), assessing resemblance at birth is key because that is when fathers decide paternity. A total of 715 unmarried and non-cohabiting parents responded to this question.…”

Section: Baby Looks Measurementioning

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If looks could heal: Child health and paternal investment

Tracey

Polachek

2018

Journal of Health Economics

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“…Brédart and French [5] later contradicted those findings stating there is a large resemblance between parents and children up to the age of 5. Subsequent studies have corroborated that offspring do in fact resemble parents more than random strangers and at different ages may resemble a particular parent more [2,6].…”

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“…In this paper, we consider the difficult task of determining parent-offspring resemblance using deep learning to answer the question "Who do I look like?" Although humans can perform this job at a rate higher than chance, it is not clear how they do it [2]. However, recent studies in anthropology [24] have determined which features tend to be the most discriminative.…”

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“…In [24], Naini and Moss claim to have cracked the code finding the most meaningful genetic features in determining relatedness. Further studies [2,5,6], claim to have correlated visual resemblance between parents and their offspring of varying ages. In this paper, we aim to bridge the gap between findings in the social sciences and computer vision to answer the age-old question, "Who do I look like?"…”

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Who Do I Look Like? Determining Parent-Offspring Resemblance via Gated Autoencoders

Dehghan

Ortiz

Villegas

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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Recent years have seen a major push for face recognition technology due to the large expansion of image sharing on social networks. In this paper, we consider the difficult task of determining parent-offspring resemblance using deep learning to answer the question "Who do I look like?" Although humans can perform this job at a rate higher than chance, it is not clear how they do it [2]. However, recent studies in anthropology [24] have determined which features tend to be the most discriminative. In this study, we aim to not only create an accurate system for resemblance detection, but bridge the gap between studies in anthropology with computer vision techniques. Further, we aim to answer two key questions: 1) Do offspring resemble their parents? and 2) Do offspring resemble one parent more than the other? We propose an algorithm that fuses the features and metrics discovered via gated autoencoders with a discriminative neural network layer that learns the optimal, or what we call genetic, features to delineate parent-offspring relationships. We further analyze the correlation between our automatically detected features and those found in anthropological studies. Meanwhile, our method outperforms the state-of-the-art in kinship verification by 3-10% depending on the relationship using specific (father-son, motherdaughter, etc.) and generic models.

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Parental Investment and Parent‐Offspring Conflict

Salmon

2015

The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology

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Not all species engage in parental care. As researchers have noted, investment by parents in offspring is investment that cannot be directed elsewhere, into either somatic effort or other mating opportunities. Which parental and offspring factors influence the degree of parental investment is one of the focuses of this chapter. An additional focus is conflict between parents and offspring. At first glance, the relationship between parent and child seems to begin in perfect harmony. The image of parents' devotion to their infant is one that has been depicted in art for thousands of years and sometimes seems like a sharp contrast to the modern portrayal of the typical adolescent‐parent relationship as full of strife. But is either image really accurate? What factors shape the degree of conflict between parent and child? An adaptationist perspective provides useful insight into these questions.

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Differential facial resemblance of young children to their parents: who do children look like more?

Cited by 101 publications

References 49 publications

If looks could heal: Child health and paternal investment

If looks could heal: Child health and paternal investment

Who Do I Look Like? Determining Parent-Offspring Resemblance via Gated Autoencoders

Parental Investment and Parent‐Offspring Conflict

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