Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals
Published in 1872, this is the culmination of Darwin's extensive research into the shared features of human and animal expression.
Published in 1872, this is the culmination of Darwin's extensive research into the shared features of human and animal expression.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141439440 (0141439440)
Publish date: July 28th 2009
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Let me tell you how I got to this book. You may already know the dictum of Jean Paul Sartre about animals as ‘animated things’, that is animals are moving things without emotions. This has revolted me always, but only recently I delved into this, subsequent to my encounter with a calf.I have been ob...
I confess I had no intention of reading the Expressions of Emotions in Man, and purely lifted this volume in order to peruse the Autobiography. Having read both Origins and Descent of man I am well used to Darwin’s laborious style of dialogue and could not face another of his scientific treatise.The...
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