The Face. The Evolution of Beauty
Description
Is there a universal characteristic that defines beauty? Has the human gene pool been altered over the millennia by a process of selection based on this characteristic? In this program, experts from Harvard, Yale, and the University of California explore facial evolution, the brain's specialized ability to recognize familiar faces, the ways in which expressions are used to actively and passively communicate, the intricacies of craniofacial surgery, facial recognition by computers, and the technology that can produce an artificially made face. In addition, prosopagnosia (the inability to recognize faces), Mobius syndrome (also known as dead face), and the reconstruction of a congenitally deformed face are investigated using case histories.
Runtime
53 min
Subjects
- Choice (Psychology) (44)
- Personality (110)
- Perception (111)
- Beauty, Personal (37)
- Face (10)
- Senses and sensation (121)
- Self (67)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c1998
Database
Films on Demand
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