How the face develops in the womb: “The three main sections of the puzzle meet in the middle of your top lip, creating the groove that is your philtrum,” says BBC’s Michael Mosley on the show “Inside the Human Body.”
The reason your face looks like it does all comes down to one feature you probably ignore most your life: the groove between the nose and upper lip.
Fascinating time-lapse video shows a series of 3-D animated scans of a face captured between one and three months after conception. Produced for BBC series “Inside the Human Body,” the clip shows how parts of the face come together in the womb — just like a puzzle.
