"Genetics Are Awesome…took portraits of two people who are directly related--say, a father and a daughter or pair of twins--and placed them in a split-screen combination. This basic juxtaposition dramatically visualizes the power that genes--just tiny coiled bits of nucleic acids--exert over the design of an entire organism. Sure, it’s no great epiphany that a baby girl has mommy’s eyes and daddy’s chin. But something about these split-screen combinations breaks out of the humdrum abstraction of heritability and snaps your awareness toward the, yes, awesomeness (in the cosmic sense, not the Lolcat-GIF sense) of this basic fact of life. Some of the resemblances between parents and offspring are so striking that the photos look like they have leaped into the future (or past) of one person’s life. But the differences are even more intriguing: It’s like seeing jump cuts in genetic code come to life. Genetics Are Awesome is a great piece of science-communication design--not because it didactically teaches you anything but because it reaches into you and makes you want to learn more."

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1673052/uncanny-portraits-visualize-the-power-of-genetics#1

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