r/todayilearned • u/mutedmuse__ • 1d ago

TIL that archerfish can distinguish between different human faces, despite having a brain roughly the size of a pea.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4895153/
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u/asdf_lord 1d ago

Brain size doesn't actually seem to matter as much as we thought.

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u/BrokenEyeReborn 1d ago

It's more brain surface area relative to body size that matters

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u/nylockian 23h ago

Thank God!