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Darwin’s queries on expression

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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…

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  • … infants' eyes Bridges, Thomas (b) …

Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute

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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…

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  • … arena. ‘Horrid tedious dull work’ Thomas Henry Huxley sent Darwin the New Year’s …
  • … part of his long-delayed ‘big book’, started in January 1860, and advertised in the press since 1865 …
  • … the universality of human expressions. As early as January 1860, he had sent a list of specific …
  • … 1867, Sulivan replied , enclosing belated answers from Thomas Bridges to the queries Darwin had …