Sheep have a face-recognition system so similar to our own that researchers at the University of Cambridge are using them to study Huntington’s disease, a condition that progressively destroys the human brain’s ability to read faces.
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Eight sheep, four famous faces, and a hit rate of roughly eight times out of ten. That is the headline figure from a 2017 experiment at the University of Cambridge, and it is stranger than it sounds. The sheep were not reacting to a smell, a voice, or a familiar coat. They were looking at flat photographs of people they had never met, and picking the right one.
A note before we go further: we are not neurologists, geneticists, or clinicians. What follows is our reading of one study and the resea
A note before we go further: we are not neurologists, geneticists, or clinicians. What follows is our reading of one study and the resea
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