Wasps Never Forget a Face The findings add to the debate about whether facial recognition skills in people are learned or inborn. The wasps are “phenomenally better at learning wasp faces than anything else we tested them on,” said Michael Sheehan, a graduate student in evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. “They’re not just good at faces. Like people, the way they learn faces is different from the way they learn other images.” Read more

Wasps Never Forget a Face

The findings add to the debate about whether facial recognition skills in people are learned or inborn.

The wasps are “phenomenally better at learning wasp faces than anything else we tested them on,” said Michael Sheehan, a graduate student in evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. “They’re not just good at faces. Like people, the way they learn faces is different from the way they learn other images.”

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