Dimensions
135 x 216 x 39mm
Why do we shrug? Why do dogs wag their tails? Why do we scowl when angry and pout when sad rather than the other way around? What is the difference between guilt and shame?
This would be an extraordinary book even if it had only answered these and scores of similar questions about the emotions in 1872. But 'Expression' also proved that the human mind, not just the body, is a product of evolution. It showed, during the heyday of scientific racism, that the races of mankind are fundamentally similar; anticipating virtually every twentieth-century behavioural science, from child development and psychopathology to ethnography, ethology, cognitive science and neurophysiology. It was the first scientific work to rely on photography. It is a captivating book . . . Darwin enriched his arguments with hundreds of insightful observations, many with the pathos and humor of great literature.
This edition is a fresh and provocative today as it was 125 years ago.
