Exploiting Koinophilia-Phenomena to Classify Geographic Origin

This paper primarily explores a new method that pairs evolutionary psychology and computer vision to classify the geographic origins of an unknown subject. This work first outlines existing research into koinophilia, an evolutionary psychology phenomenon describing phenotypical attraction to averages. An associated hypothesis to this paper is the geographic isolation of this phenomena. This research explores the potential of a simulation where an experimental group of known geography interacts with a selection of averaged faces, their relative koinophilia phenomena can be used to infer a geographic classification of the unknown group.