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The definitive edition of Darwin’s classic – a brilliantly entertaining and accessible exploration of human and animal behaviour, reissued to mark the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth. Why do we bite people we feel affection towards? Why do dogs wag their tails? Or cats purr? Why do we get embarrassed, and why does embarrassment make us blush? These and many other questions about the emotional life of man and animals are answered in this remarkable book. Expression is the only book in which Darwin sketches out his revolutionary ideas about human behaviour in detail: he discusses childhood learning, insanity, painting and sculpture, animal behaviour and the differences in facial expression of the world’s peoples.

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'This is Darwin's most readable and human book, full of enchanting observations, provocative theories and remarkable photographs. This splendid new edition of Expression will introduce a new generation of readers to Darwin's masterpiece, undiminished and intensely relevant even 125 years after publication.' Oliver Sacks, author of The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat 'The Expression of the Emotions predates Freud, and it will still be illuminating human psychology long after Freud's discrediting is complete.' Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion 'The appearance of this new edition of Darwin's extraordinary book is a major event in the human sciences. Here Darwin reminds us of his astonishing gifts of observation and explanation, offering insights that are delightful and fresh over a century later. Paul Ekman's reconstruction of this edition is an act of great scholarship. Everyone interested in emotion -- and who isn't? -- should be grateful to Ekman for this book.' Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct 'The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals! is Darwin's most extraordinary and approachable book, rich in observed detail and brilliant speculation, beautifully illustrated. This third edition, prepared and annotated by the great American psychologist of the emotions, Paul Ekman! is a major publishing event.' -- Ian McEwan

The works of Charles Darwin are a delight to read, even more than 100 years after they were written. But of all his books, the most sensational of its day was The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals - because it was the one book in which Darwin explicitly treated human beings as the subjects of study in exactly the same way as other animals. Not many people realize that in so doing he invented the scientific discipline now known as sociobiology. This delightful reprint of Darwin's classic work has been reset (none of your fuzzy photographic copying of old text here) with additional material by Darwin scholar Paul Ekman setting the work in context. An absolute must for anyone interested in science. (Kirkus UK)

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Charles Darwin (1809–19 April 1882) is considered the most important English naturalist of all time. He established the theories of natural selection and evolution. His theory of evolution was published as On the Origin of Species in 1859, and by the 1870s is was widely accepted as fact.

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