I have read about this somewhere where it said that a child could resemble someone who sleeps with a pregnant woman but is not the father of that soon-to-be-born baby. Is that true?
Can a child resemble someone who sleeps with a pregnant woman but is not the father of that child?
From genetics’ point of view, no, that is not possible. All genetic material for human being comes from the two parents, except for a few exceptions in some cases of test-tube fertilization. Basically, nothing the woman has done during or after the pregnancy will change the look of the child. However, it is possible for a baby to resemble anyone in the world, and it’s not impossible that the person a baby resembles had sex with the mother at one given time.
I’ve read on Wikipedia about Telegony, a theory in heredity, holding that offspring can inherit the characteristics of a previous mate of the female parent; thus the child of a remarried woman might partake of traits of a previous husband. This theory has been proven wrong many times but it’s constantly being brought up as an argument.