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Sep 16, 2014 · September 16, 2014. The amazing variety of human faces – far greater than that of most other animals – is the result of evolutionary pressure to make each of us unique and easily recognizable, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, scientists. Our highly visual social interactions are almost certainly the driver of ...
Sep 16, 2014 · The comparison showed that human facial traits are, on average, more varied than other human features. “And the most variable traits on our faces are within the triangle of the eyes, mouth, and nose,” Sheehan explained. Taking their investigation one step further, Sheehan and Nachman next accessed data collected by the 1000 Genome project ...
Sep 16, 2014 · We filtered the data based on the sets of 2-kb windows for face, height and intergenic regions to produce three files for each population, which we subsequently examined using custom macros in Excel.
- Michael J. Sheehan, Michael W. Nachman
- 2014
Apr 22, 2019 · For over 4 million years, our features have slowly morphed into what we see today in the mirror, a brief stop on the way to who knows what. From early hominins to modern Homo sapiens, a new review written by leading experts traces the history of the human face across millions of years, as landscapes, climates, and cultures come and go.
Sep 16, 2014 · Michael J. Sheehan, Michael W. Nachman. Morphological and population genomic evidence that human faces have evolved to signal individual identity. Nature Communications, 2014; 5: 4800 DOI: 10.1038 ...
Sep 17, 2014 · If no two faces are alike, researchers now have an idea why. We evolved unique faces in order to tell each other apart, according to a new study published in Nature Communications.As the ...
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Apr 15, 2019 · Abstract. The face is the most distinctive feature used to identify others. Modern humans have a short, retracted face beneath a large globular braincase that is distinctively different from that ...
