Why humans like to cry : tragedy, evolution, and the brain
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Why humans like to cry : tragedy, evolution, and the brain
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The work Why humans like to cry : tragedy, evolution, and the brain represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Why humans like to cry : tragedy, evolution, and the brain
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- tragedy, evolution, and the brain
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- Michael Trimble
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Human beings are the only species to have evolved the trait of emotional crying. We weep at tragedies in our lives and in those of others - remarkably even when they are fictional characters in film, opera, music, novels, and theatre. Why have we developed art forms - most powerfully, music - which move us to sadness and tears? This question forms the backdrop to Michael Trimble's discussion of emotional crying, its physiology, and its evolutionary implications. His exploration examines the connections with other distinctively human features: the development of language, self-consciousness, re
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- Dewey number
- 152.6
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BF575.C88
- LC item number
- T75 2012eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
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