Have facial expressions evolved randomly or do their different shapes support some adaptive purpose? New work offers evidence of a selection pressure that may have shaped fearful and disgusted expressions.
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Whalen, P., Kleck, R. The shape of faces (to come). Nat Neurosci 11, 739–740 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0708-739
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