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Using life masks of Lincoln owned by the Chicago History Museum, scientists have determined that Abraham Lincoln had an unusually asymmetrical face. Lincoln had a condition called cranial facial microsomia — the left side of his face was much smaller than the right. The results of the study have been widely reported, including in The Independent<\/a>, <\/em>in which Leonard Doyle writes:<\/p>\n Lincoln’s contemporaries noted his left eye at times drifted upwards independently of his right eye, a condition now termed strabismus<\/em>. Lincoln’s smaller, left eye socket may have had a displaced muscle controlling vertical movement, said Dr Ronald Fishman, who led the study published in the Archives of Ophthalmology.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Most people’s faces are asymmetrical, Dr Fishman said, but Lincoln’s case was extreme, with the bony ridge over his left eye rounder and thinner than the right, and set backwards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So what did I think when I read that?<\/p>\n