How the Universal ‘Anger Face’ Evolved
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 4th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
How the Universal ‘Anger Face’ Evolved
Science Daily: The next time you get really mad, take a look in the mirror. See the lowered brow, the thinned lips and the flared nostrils? That’s what social scientists call the “anger face,” and it appears to be part of our basic biology as humans. Now, researchers at UC Santa Barbara and at Griffith University in Australia have identified the functional advantages that caused the specific appearance of the anger face to evolve. Their findings appear in the current online edition of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.
Joan Rivers Dies
The comedian Joan Rivers died Thursday at age 81, her daughter announced. “It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my mother, Joan Rivers,” Melissa Rivers said. “She passed peacefully at 1:17 p.m. surrounded by family and close friends.” Joan Rivers suffered cardiac arrest Aug. 28 during surgery. She had been performing stand-up comedy since the 1960s, first appearing on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1965, later becoming his permanent guest host. “When I started out, a pretty girl did not go into comedy. If you saw a pretty girl walk into a nightclub, she was automatically a singer. Comedy was all white, older men,” Rivers wrote in 2012. “I didn’t even want to be a comedian. Nobody wanted to be a comedian!”
