The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals public by arguing that humans had "animal traits", and instead charmed them by telling stories of "human traits in animals", thus avoiding too much explicit talk of natural selection at work. Darwin preferred to leave the evolutionary implications hanging. Korn points out that the book has never been out of print since 1872, calling into question Ekman's talk of "Darwin's lost masterpiece". The "Editor's notes" at the "Mead Project source page" on the book comment that Darwin concluded work on the book with a sense of relief. The proofs, tackled by his daughter Henrietta ("Ettie") and son Leo, required a
The Man Who Had No Idea The Man Who Had No Idea "The Man Who Had No Idea" is a 1978 science fiction story by Thomas M. Disch. It was first published in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction". In a world where licenses are required in order to participate in conversation, Barry Riordan risks failing his exam because he cannot think of anything original. "The Man Who Had No Idea" was a finalist for the 1979 Hugo Award for Best Novelette John Sladek considered it to depict "delightful problems". "Kirkus Reviews" noted that it "say(s) a great deal about our expectations of ourselves and