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Ben Bradley, Professor Emeritus (Psychology), Charles Sturt University

150 years ago, Charles Darwin wrote about how expressions evolved – pre-empting modern psychology by a century

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals / Wikimedia

Was Charles Darwin a one-hit wonder? According to scientists who take a gene’s-eye view of evolution, the 19th-century English naturalist contributed one crucial idea to understanding how species change: natural selection, or “design without a designer”.

However, a book of Darwin’s that is little read by modern evolutionists – The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals – turns out to contain valuable lessons for scientists seeking to understand how and why humans do what we do.

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