THE DESCENT OF MAN

ISBN: 9780266591870 Géneros: PSV Sinópsis: Excerpt from The Descent of Man And Selection in Relation to SexI had intended adding to the present volumes an essay on the expression of the various emotions by man and the lower animals My attention was called to this subject many years ago by Sir Charles Bells admirable work This illustrious anatomist main tains that man is endowed with certain muscles solely for the sake of expressing his emotions As this view is obviously op posed to the belief that man is descended from some other and lower form it was necessary for me to consider it I likewise wished to ascertain how far the emotions are expressed in the same manner by the difierent races of man But owing to the length of the present work I have thought it better to reserve my essay for separate publicationAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works