The Expression Of The Emotions In Man And Animals

by Charles Darwin

Overview

Charles Robert Darwin, FRS (12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection. Darwin published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species. By the 1870s the scientific community and much of the general public had accepted evolution as a fact. However, many favoured competing explanations and it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed in which natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. In modified form, Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining thediversity of life.
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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781478123675
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	06/25/2012
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

Paul Ekman is Professor of Psychology at the University of California at San Francisco. He is the editor of Darwin and Facial Expression and The Nature of Emotion, and author of Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage. He lives in San Francisco.

Date of Birth:

February 12, 1809

Date of Death:

April 19, 1882

Place of Birth:

Shrewsbury, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

B.A. in Theology, Christ¿s College, Cambridge University, 1831

Table of Contents

Preface by Konrad Lorenz
Introduction
1. General Principles of Expression
2. General Principles of Expression (continued)
3. General Principles of Expression (concluded)
4. Means of Expression in Animals
5. Special Expressions of Animals
6. Special Expressions of Man: Suffering and Weeping
7. Low Spirits, Anxiety, Grief, Dejection, Despair
8. Joy, High Spirits, Love, Tender Feelings, Devotion
9. Reflection, Meditation, Ill-Temper, Sulkiness, Determination
10. Hatred and Anger
11. Disdain, Contempt, Disgust, Guilt, Pride, Helplessness, Patience, Affirmation and Negation
12. Surprise, Astonishment, Fear, Horror
13. Self-Attention, Shame, Shyness, Modesty: Blushing
14. Concluding Remarks and Summary

Editorial Reviews

Ekman (psychology, UC San Francisco) presents a work that was well known during Darwin's lifetime, providing notes throughout, as well as an introduction, afterword, and appendices. Darwin's text itself goes into great detail describing facial and bodily expressions corresponding to dozens of emotions in humans, dogs, horses, apes, and other animals. Photographs, drawings and woodcuts illustrate the expressions described. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

Darwin's most readable and human book, full of enchanting observations, provocative theories, and remarkable photographs....This new comprehensive 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

Oliver Sacks