Why do Human Faces Look so Different?

Published: May 26, 2017, 8 p.m.

You don\u2019t have to be a \u201csuper-recogniser\u201d to know that human facial features are extremely varied. Just look around you. Yet look at a most other animals and you\u2019d find it hard to tell individuals apart. So why are human faces so diverse?

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