1905 Charles Darwin Expression of Emotion Evolution Human Behavior Animal



“One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.”

― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species



‘Expressions of the Emotions’ was Darwin’s third great work on his evolutionary theory, and was quite important, even though it was not nearly as popular as the prior two works, ‘Origin’ and ‘Decent’. Darwin explores human behavior and how it relates to genetics, especially that of emotions. He dives deep into emotions such as anxiety, grief, and guilt, and how they impact human growth and evolution. Freeman says of this book,

“The Expression of the Emotions is an important member of the evolutionary set, and it was written, in part at least, as a confutation of the idea that the facial muscles of expression in man were a special endowment… [Darwin concluded that] the chief expressive actions exhibited by man and by the lower animals are now innate or inherited."



This work is the only work of Charles Darwin’s to be illustrated with photographs and was his first to feature heliotype plates. Pictures come from photographer Oscar Rejlander, who decided to feature himself in many of the images. (Freeman 1188).



According to Garrison & Morton,

“Darwin examined the causes, physiological and psychological, of all the fundamental emotions in man and animals. He concluded that ‘the chief expressive actions exhibited by man and by the lower animals are now innate or inherited’, and that most of the movements of expression must have been gradually acquired.”



Item number: #12114

Price: $299



DARWIN, Charles



The expression of the emotions in man and animals



New York: Appleton and Co., 1905.



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

[4], iii-vi, 372

28 illustrations

References: Freeman 1188;

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure

Size: ~8in X 5.25in (20cm x 13.5cm)



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