Darwin's contributions to our understanding of emotional expressions.
Darwin charted the field of emotional expressions with five major contributions. Possible explanations of why he was able to make such important and lasting contributions are proposed. A few of the important questions that he did not consider are described. Two of those questions have been answered at least in part; one remains a major gap in our understanding of emotion.
Ekman
Paul
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University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. paul.ekman@yahoo.com
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005149:Facial Expression; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans