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Gr 3-6 Using clear and understandable language, Jackson explains the physiology of facial features, their evolution, and their roles in survival and communication. She discusses the reasons why there are variations in features among races and how babies' faces endear them to their caregivers, thereby encouraging nurturing. A particularly interesting section deals with forensic techniques of modeling age progression in young children in cases of abduction. Also covered are prosopagnosia (a disorder that prevents people...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Despite teleological underpinnings ("Nature makes infants especially appealing so adults will nurture them until they can survive on their own") muddying the science in this account, Jackson ably leads young readers to consider their faces and expressions, both as personal identifiers and as markers for socialization. She details the ways in which people of different cultures decorate their faces (including pa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More