Mummy, I'm in love... and she looks just like you!

Men tend to wind up with life partners who look like their mother, while a woman is lured to a partner who looks like her father, scientists reported on Wednesday.

Heterosexuals are deeply attracted to individuals whose faces are similar to that of their opposite-sex parent, they said, suggesting that this characteristic is rooted in an evolutionary drive.

The researchers found a significant correlation in facial similarities between a woman's mate and her father, and also between a man's partner and his mother.

Interestingly, men and women focused on different parts of the face when they home in on a potential mate, they found.

A man's lover and his mother tended to have similar fullness in the lips, width of mouth, as well as length and width of jaw.

But for women, the critical features were the distance between mouth and brow, the height of the face, distance between the eyes and the size of a man's nose.

Full Story: Incest, no?

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So, put the photos of your other half and your dad or mum, and spot the similarities! I think that really holds a certain degree of truth.

Depending on how you look at it, this could be defined as familiarity breeding liking, or a serious case of subconscious incest!