Neural correlates of individual facial recognition in a social wasp.

Christopher M JerniganWinrich A FreiwaldMichael J Sheehan

Published in: bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2024)

We identify a localized population of neurons specifically tuned to wasp faces in a social wasp that has independently evolved individual facial recognition analogous to the face cells of primates.

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