Publisher's Synopsis
This text provides an integrated view of human facial expressions based on contemporary knowledge about the evolution of signaling across the animal kingdom. Spanning fields that range from psychology and anthropology to neurology and linguistics, it discusses questions such as: What do facial expressions express? How did facial expressions evolve? What relationship is there between expressions and emotions and motives?;This book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate use as a text or course supplement. Topics covered include: the history of interpreting facial expressions; Darwinian theory; modern evolutionary theory; the biological, cultural and developmental evolution of facial expressions; and the syntactics and semantics of animal signaling.
