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 in a Case Man in a case" worked. The exact prototype of Belikov is unknown. Some contemporaries (including V.G. Bogoraz and M.P. Chekhov) considered that the teacher of Ancient Greek language and the inspector of the Taganrog gymnasium A.F. Dyakonov was a prototype of "the person in a case", others described the traits of character of Dyakonov disproving opinion of the first. So, P.P. Filevsky noted Dyakonov's generosity and wrote: "I positively claim that between "The man in a case" and A.F. Dyakonov there is nothing in common and no local color can be found in this work by A.P. Chekhov". The cost