You might have the same narrow nose as your mom, but new research has discovered that there's more to nose shape than genetics.

Another factor may also explain nose variation in humans: sexual dimorphism. Men tend to have larger noses than women, so Zaidi suspects that sexual selection could affect population-level differences ...

Your Nose—Big or Small—Is Shaped by Your DNA Published May 19, 2016 at 1:22 PM EDT Updated Jun 14, 2016 at 11:15 AM EDT Your DNA determines the shape of the nose you're born with, but elective ...

Ski-jump, hooked, piggy or snubbed — there are almost as many nose shapes as there are people in the world. Now, new research has uncovered four genes that govern some of the variation in the ...

Still, there is likely a far more dramatic pressure responsible for your nose shape: sex. "If anything has been shaped by sexual selection, it's the face," Shriver says.

There are a number of other ways to change the shape of your nose other than going under the knife. Here experts share some of the most popular alternative methods with FEMAIL.

To see what mechanism likely influenced nose shape, the researchers used 3D facial imaging to measure the noses of more than 2,600 participants from West Africa, South Asia, East Asia and Northern ...

Although many people think of nose shape as a purely aesthetic feature, researchers suspect that different nose shapes evolved in different environments, for different reasons, the study authors said.

Ski-jump, hooked, piggy or snubbed — there are almost as many nose shapes as there are people in the world. Now, new research has uncovered four genes that govern some of the variation in the ...