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>https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3130383/
>Familiarity with parental traits has been implicated in human preferences. The phenomenon of imprinting, whereby individuals are attracted to parental traits, is well-studied in non-human animals and there is increasing evidence for similar effects in humans.
>Following studies of facial similarity, judges have been shown to correctly match wives to their mother-in-law at a significantly higher rate than expected by chance and that wife–mother-in-law similarity is higher than similarity between husbands and their wives
>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12028768/
>We found that women born to 'old' parents (over 30) were less impressed by youth, and more attracted to age cues in male faces than women with 'young' parents (under 30).
>For men, preferences for female faces were influenced by their mother's age and not their father's age, but only for long-term relationships. These data indicate that judgements of facial attractiveness in humans reflect the learning of parental characteristics.