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All around the world?
All people frown when they're angry and smile when they're happy. But is this just learnt as we grow up, surrounded by pictures, photographs and television? Apparently not: even people who live in isolated parts of the world use these same expressions.Enlarge
In the 1860s, Guillaume Duchenne used electrical pulses to tweak patients’ faces, creating a map relating muscles to expressions.
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