
white people are hard to distinguish for people who live in predominantly black countries or oriental, for example... so, it has been shown by various cognitive/perceptual studies that people of one race find it difficult to distinguish faces of other races blah blah etc etc SCIENCE
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Sun 29 Aug 2010, 22:15,
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but it's based on a posited facial prototype for people that helps us recognise people we would be most likely to encounter in our every day lives helping us to recognise familiar people more quickly etc.
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Sun 29 Aug 2010, 22:21,
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www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html
edit: hmm, this is a badly written version of what i thought i was linkng to. ho hum
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Sun 29 Aug 2010, 22:27,
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edit: hmm, this is a badly written version of what i thought i was linkng to. ho hum