You want the texture map to have the requisite amount of detail for the distance from the object.  Faces contain a lot of detail and are often the centerpiece of a render, so their maps usually are more detailed than the torso texture. If one were doing, say, elbow  shots, a larger, more detailed limb texture would be in order...

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