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Why Are Human Faces So Diverse Compared To Other Primates? Because Being Unique Was Critical To Our Evolutiona collage of facial features from different women put together to make a single face

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Why Are Human Faces So Diverse Compared To Other Primates? Because Being Unique Was Critical To Our Evolutiona collage of facial features from different women put together to make a single face
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Why Are Human Faces So Diverse Compared To Other Primates? Because Being Unique Was Critical To Our Evolution

clock-iconMarch 27, 2026

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What Is The "Thatcher Effect" And Why Is It So Terrifying (And Cool)?Two photos of the same woman arranged side-by-side. The photos are upside down and both appear to be the same - the woman has shoulder length dark hair and is wearing a white jumper.

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What Is The "Thatcher Effect" And Why Is It So Terrifying (And Cool)?Two photos of the same woman arranged side-by-side. The photos are upside down and both appear to be the same - the woman has shoulder length dark hair and is wearing a white jumper.
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What Is The "Thatcher Effect" And Why Is It So Terrifying (And Cool)?

clock-iconFebruary 20, 2026
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Facial Disfiguration: Why Has The Face Been The Target Of Punishment Across Time?A photo showing the central facial features of a female statue, but has been cut away from the rest of the head so that it is presenting at an angle.

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Facial Disfiguration: Why Has The Face Been The Target Of Punishment Across Time?A photo showing the central facial features of a female statue, but has been cut away from the rest of the head so that it is presenting at an angle.
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Facial Disfiguration: Why Has The Face Been The Target Of Punishment Across Time?

clock-iconDecember 31, 2025
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What Is Prosopometamorphopsia? The "Exceedingly Rare" Condition That Made A Patient See Faces As Dragonsa man's face appearing to morph into that of a dragon

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What Is Prosopometamorphopsia? The "Exceedingly Rare" Condition That Made A Patient See Faces As Dragonsa man's face appearing to morph into that of a dragon
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What Is Prosopometamorphopsia? The "Exceedingly Rare" Condition That Made A Patient See Faces As Dragons

clock-iconJuly 7, 2025
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Prosopagnosia: What’s It Like To Live With Face Blindness?dark conference auditorium with lots of people sitting watching a lecture; they are viewed from behind so you can't see their faces

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Prosopagnosia: What’s It Like To Live With Face Blindness?dark conference auditorium with lots of people sitting watching a lecture; they are viewed from behind so you can't see their faces
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Prosopagnosia: What’s It Like To Live With Face Blindness?

clock-iconMay 2, 2025
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Your “Good Side” Is Probably Your Left – Here’s Whycouple taking a selfie with a tablet

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Your “Good Side” Is Probably Your Left – Here’s Whycouple taking a selfie with a tablet
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Your “Good Side” Is Probably Your Left – Here’s Why

clock-iconOctober 18, 2024
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Your Face Might Change To Match Your Name As You AgeA group of young people taking a selfie whilst smiling widely

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Your Face Might Change To Match Your Name As You AgeA group of young people taking a selfie whilst smiling widely
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Your Face Might Change To Match Your Name As You Age

clock-iconJuly 30, 2024
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Does Every Face Look Demonic To You? Then You Might Have This Super Rare ConditionComputer-generated images of the distortions of a male face (top) and female face (bottom), as perceived by the patient in the study.

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Does Every Face Look Demonic To You? Then You Might Have This Super Rare ConditionComputer-generated images of the distortions of a male face (top) and female face (bottom), as perceived by the patient in the study.
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Does Every Face Look Demonic To You? Then You Might Have This Super Rare Condition

clock-iconMarch 22, 2024
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AI-Generated Faces Are Now More Realistic Than Actual Faces (If They're White)A grid made up of 50 human faces of different ages, genders and ethnicities.

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AI-Generated Faces Are Now More Realistic Than Actual Faces (If They're White)A grid made up of 50 human faces of different ages, genders and ethnicities.
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AI-Generated Faces Are Now More Realistic Than Actual Faces (If They're White)

clock-iconNovember 14, 2023
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Women Who Have Just Had A Baby Are More Likely To Experience PareidoliaA mother with her baby.

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Women Who Have Just Had A Baby Are More Likely To Experience PareidoliaA mother with her baby.
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Women Who Have Just Had A Baby Are More Likely To Experience Pareidolia

clock-iconSeptember 14, 2023
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"Face Blindness" Is Even More Common Than We ThoughtA figure on the street with their face obscured by a paper bag marked with a question mark

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"Face Blindness" Is Even More Common Than We ThoughtA figure on the street with their face obscured by a paper bag marked with a question mark
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"Face Blindness" Is Even More Common Than We Thought

clock-iconFebruary 28, 2023
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Brain Stimulation Causes Man To See Ghostly Cartoon Faces And Rainbows Everywherearticle image

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Brain Stimulation Causes Man To See Ghostly Cartoon Faces And Rainbows Everywherearticle image

Brain Stimulation Causes Man To See Ghostly Cartoon Faces And Rainbows Everywhere

clock-iconNovember 9, 2017