Prosopagnosia Genetics

[nyuanshin]

A while back I wrote up a fun article about how impaired facial recognition is more common than you might expect. Turns out facial recognition is highly heritable, i.e. there's considerable genetic variance contributing to face-recognizing ability. This gels with my guess that selection pressures for it have been comparatively recent -- if it was

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[_luaineach]

I like when you post here.

Have you been well?

[nyuanshin]

Thanks. :)

*Very* well, actually. Adjusting to a higher level of ambiguity in my life has been kind of jarring, but figuring out how to navigate that is turning out to be very worthwhile.

[airstrip]

Yeah, I heard this on NPR but hadn't considered the evolutionary side of it.

[e4q]

doesn't help me with my TERRIBLE memory for names, though...