Paper wasps rapidly evolved ability to identify faces

Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 09:41 in Biology & Nature

Individuals within a species may all look alike to the average insect, but one paper wasp species has evolved specialized cognitive abilities to recognize individual faces among their peers. How did complex cognition evolve in just this species? New research indicates facial recognition abilities evolved relatively rapidly – in the last few thousand years – […]

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