Why do we all look different

Franz Von Peppercorn

Somedaythefire wrote: »

The conditioning isn't why we look different, it's how we perceive and understand the differences on an instictual level. All chimpanzees (or insert any animal here) look very different too, but we just don't recognise those differences.

Here’s what the article I linked to says.

The amazing variety of human faces -- far greater than that of most other animals -- is the result of evolutionary pressure to make each of us unique and easily recognizable, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, scientists.

And this diversity is why we have so much of our brain adapted to facial recognition.

Ian OB

Came across this a while ago. Might be relevant to the topic.


http://cogweb.ucla.edu/ep/Frost_06.html

rgodard80a

Sardonicat wrote: »

The 1930s called. Thinks you might come in handy with a project it's got in the -ahem- 'pipeline'.

Godwin strikes again. :rolleyes:

Where did I advocate genocide ?
Simple things like antibiotics, insulin injections, C-sections etc have bypassed natural selection. I didn't say we need to abandon them... although antibiotic resistant bacteria will probably give the population a bit of a weeding in the future.

DaeryssaOne

I think I heard that different races will eye-scan different 'areas of interest' on people's faces so that's why some could regard other races as 'looking the same'.

For example Asian people might look at another Asian person's nose to identify them while a Caucasian may look at the distance between the eyes while an African person scans the distance between the nose and upper lip (I'm making these examples up as I can't remember the exact details).

It's interesting though and shows how we can all recognise other faces differently. I'm dreadful at this myself, I've worked in this job for 6 months now and up until yesterday when they sat next to each other in a meeting I thought two guys who sit near me were the same person.

It's actually something I do struggle with, I don't have that facial recognition problem spoken about above but I am really really bad at remembering both names and faces (so I often appear pretty rude!) :eek:

ToddyDoody

magic_murph wrote: »

For the most part -
All chimps look the same
All Gorillas look the same
All lions, tigers and bears look the same

Basically if you are of animal Type A,B,C etc you will look the same

But as humans we are all totally different, for the most part, why is that ?

Katie Hopkins?

DEFTLEFTHAND

DaeryssaOne wrote: »

I think I heard that different races will eye-scan different 'areas of interest' on people's faces so that's why some could regard other races as 'looking the same'.

For example Asian people might look at another Asian person's nose to identify them while a Caucasian may look at the distance between the eyes while an African person scans the distance between the nose and upper lip (I'm making these examples up as I can't remember the exact details).

It's interesting though and shows how we can all recognise other faces differently. I'm dreadful at this myself, I've worked in this job for 6 months now and up until yesterday when they sat next to each other in a meeting I thought two guys who sit near me were the same person.

It's actually something I do struggle with, I don't have that facial recognition problem spoken about above but I am really really bad at remembering both names and faces (so I often appear pretty rude!) :eek:

I'm the same. I'm always blowing people off on the street.

I'm just not good at faces, I don't remember people. I went to a 10 yr school reunion a couple of yrs back and didn't know who I was talking to half the time.

It's rotten because people think you're being a big stuck up asshole.

BrokenArrows

magic_murph wrote: »

For the most part -
All chimps look the same
All Gorillas look the same
All lions, tigers and bears look the same

Basically if you are of animal Type A,B,C etc you will look the same

But as humans we are all totally different, for the most part, why is that ?

A,B and C do not all look the same.