Victorian virtues

Author: Charles Darwin

Title: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)

Keywords: Emotions

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Introduction

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is a book by the British naturalist Charles Darwin published in 1872. Alongside his previous volume, The Descent of Man, it forms part of his attempt to address questions of human origins and human psychology using his theory of evolution by natural selection. In preparation for the book, Darwin drew on world-wide responses to his questionnaires, hundreds of photographs of actors, babies and ‘imbeciles’ in an asylum, as well as his own observations, with particular empathy for the grief following a family death.

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