It Is All In The Genes,

and these side by side photographs seem to prove it, 

 all photographs source Drew Gardner via BoardPanda, Drew Gardner is a photographer who has completed his latest project titled The Descendants, it all started 15 or so years ago when his mother told him he looked a lot like his grandfather, this got Drew thinking whether he really does look like his grandfather and if people alive today would look similar to their forbears, above and below are the results of famous historical figures to take their portraits for a series of side-by-side pictures, the original photograph or painting on the left, the descendants the right, Drew even had the models wear outfits that matched the ones in the historical photos and had them worked out to the smallest detail, above Charles Dickens (Left), 1858 And Gerald Charles Dickens (Right) Dickens’s, Great-Great-Grandson,

Oliver Cromwell (Left), 1653-1654 And Charles Bush (Right) The Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandson Of Oliver Cromwell,

Charles II (Left), 1653 And Lord Charles Fitzroy (Right) The 9 Times Great-Grandson Of Charles II

Horatio Nelson (Left), 1800 And William John Raglan Horatio Tribe (Right) Nelson’s Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandson

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1857 (Left) And Isambard Thomas (Right), Brunel’s Great-Great-Great-Grandson

Clive Of India, Robert Clive, 1773 (Left) And Robert Holden (Right) The Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandson Of Clive Of India, what a series of amazing descendants, and an amazing piece of photography and indeed detective work to find the descendants and get them to agree to pose for the photographs, for these and many more examples have a look here, his web site is drewgardner.com also he has Facebook and Instagram pages.