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

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.

“Evolution takes a long time,” Zaidi says. “If nose shape has evolved in the past to adapt to local climate, it likely took tens of thousands of years.

Though you undoubtedly inherited your distinctive nose from your parents, its shape was sculpted over time by adaptations to your ancestors’ local climate, suggests a study published in the ...

You need to have a nose for this news — there're 14 types of the vital organ on the human face, according to a researcher. Prof. Abraham Tamir of Ben-Gurion University in Israel has completed ...

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 ...

Your DNA determines the shape of the nose you're born with, but elective surgery is always an option if you hate it. Arezoo Abassi poses for a photograph beside a pre-surgery photograph at the ...