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Nature 394, 826-827 (27 August 1998) | doi:10.1038/29636

Evolutionary biology:  The secrets of faces

Magnus Enquist1 & Stefano Ghirlanda1

The human face is a bewildering source of information, and our abilities to read and remember faces and facial expressions are extraordinarily well developed1. How faces and our recognition skills have co-evolved, and what information a face can convey, offer many avenues for scientific study.