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The powerful pull of the face: how human faces capture and hold our attention

November 23rd, 2014 3 comments

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent…It is the one that is most adaptable to change. In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.” Sound at all familiar to you? It might if you have ever heard of a man named Charles Darwin. (High-speed sixth-grade science class recap: Darwin was that brilliant, illustriousnaturalistaccredited with the theory of “survival of the fittest”—the natural selection tagline, if you will.) In 21st-century vernacular, one might say that he was “kind of a big deal.”

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