Not to freak you out, but according to science, some of us have a living doppelgänger walking the earth right now. And if you’re lucky enough to run into yours in this lifetime, you might actually get along with them pretty well: A new study found that we share genes and even personalities with those who look exactly like us.
For the study, which was published this week in the journal Cell Reports, researchers recruited 32 pairs of doppelgängers who weren’t related to each other from an ongoing photo project by Canadian artist François Brunelle, who has been searching for and photographing doppelgängers since 1999. The scientists then used AI to determine how much the participants resembled each other, gave the pairs DNA tests, and interviewed them about their lifestyles.
