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Wasps use face-recognition brain cells to identify each other

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Wasps use face-recognition brain cells to identify each other

A paper wasp hanging off a goldenrod bloom

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Researchers have pinpointed the cluster of cells in wasp brains that allows them to distinguish the faces of their wasp peers. These neurons seem to be strikingly similar to face-recognition cells in the brains of primates, including humans.

“We have this convergent evolution between these really, really distant species,” says

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at Cornell University in New York. He and his colleagues studied northern paper wasps (Polistes fuscatus), which each have subtly unique colour markings on their faces. They are known to…





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