Emotion in animals specialised form of Occam's razor used in ethology, in which he stated: Charles Darwin initially planned to include a chapter on emotion in "The Descent of Man" but as his ideas progressed they expanded into a book, "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals". Darwin proposed that emotions are adaptive and serve a communicative and motivational function, and he stated three principles that are useful in understanding emotional expression: First, "The Principle of Serviceable Habits" takes a Lamarckian stance by suggesting that emotional expressions that are useful will be passed on to the offspring. Second, "The Principle of
The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein that while he argues that Mary Shelley was not well educated enough to have written "Frankenstein", his argument fails because "it is not a good, let alone a great novel and hardly merits the attention it has been given." Lauritsen replied that "Frankenstein" "is a radical and disturbing work, containing some of the most beautiful prose in the English language ... a profound and moving masterpiece, fully worthy of its author, Percy Bysshe Shelley." "The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein" received positive reviews from Jim Herrick in "Gay Humanist Quarterly", Hubert Kennedy in "The Guide", and Douglas Sadownick in "The Gay