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
Darwin from Descent of Man to Emotions our work; and of these you rank as the first." With "the little strength left in me" he reopened his enquiries into earthworms, requesting information from correspondents. The 6th edition of "Origin of Species" was published by Murray on 19 February 1872 at a price kept down to 7s. 6d. by using minute print, and sales increased from 60 to 250 a month. Through the spring Darwin pressed on with "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals", pointing to shared evolution in contrast to Charles Bell's "Anatomy and Physiology of Expression" which claimed divinely created muscles to express