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The secrets of faces

Nature volume 394, pages 826–827 (1998)Cite this article

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.

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Figure 1: Face to face — three caricatures showing different features.

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  1. Department of Zoology, University of Stockholm, S-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden

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