And there is something deeply fundamental extracted from in-person meetings, gauging the measure of confidence, trust, affection or dislike for someone on finally meeting.
What the chief whip has now said was that she is now back in parliament and she needs to demonstrate that she's got to earn her way back into her colleagues' trust and affection.
She believes it may be possible that we are evolved to place greater trust, and to have greater affection for, people who look as though they may be related to us because the chances are higher that they share the same genes as us.