The Human Face
Here's Looking at You
S1 • E2 Mar 14, 2001 50m
In a world of six billion other
faces, your face is unique. It reveals
your personality, your genetic and
cultural identity and it can be read like
a book. Family resemblances, facial
recognition and the purpose of the
face and its features are all part of a
story that begins in the oceans five
hundred million years ago.We
conclude with the multi-racial face of
the future and the pioneering work of
surgeons in Kentucky who are
preparing for the world’s first facial
transplant.
faces, your face is unique. It reveals
your personality, your genetic and
cultural identity and it can be read like
a book. Family resemblances, facial
recognition and the purpose of the
face and its features are all part of a
story that begins in the oceans five
hundred million years ago.We
conclude with the multi-racial face of
the future and the pioneering work of
surgeons in Kentucky who are
preparing for the world’s first facial
transplant.