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Do you have ‘animal emotions'?
Emotions enable us to react to situations – for example, anger or fear will set your heart racing, and feeling happy will make you smile. One of the key areas of your brain that deals with showing, recognising and controlling the body's reactions to emotions is known as the limbic system.
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Charles Darwin thought emotions were merely left over from our animal past.
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