People thought that only mammals have the ability to tell about individual faces, and this concept existed there for long. They thought that only Large-brained Mammals have the ability to tell individual faces. In recent years, a number of studies have shown that a number of wasps can recognize each other through faces. In fact, they can learn human faces, too. In their New article in December issue of Scientific America, biologists Elizabeth Tibbetts of the University of Michigan and Adrian Dyer of RMIT University in Melbourne described these research related findings and revealed about the neural requirements for seemingly complex cognitive tasks.
The above image depicts how a honeybee sees the features of a human face. Researchers created the image with a mechano-optical array of 5,000 individual imaging tubes, each of which represents one of the facets of an insect’s compound eye.
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