Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences· 2026Q1
Comparative neuroanatomy of emotion expression: from flies to humans
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Short summary
Emotional expressions across species share features with human expressions, offering insights into their evolution and neural control, distinct from reflexes.
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Key points
- Animals exhibit complex behaviors analogous to human emotional expressions.
- These expressions offer insights into evolutionary emergence and neural control.
- Distinguishing emotional expressions from reflexes is a key focus.
- The paper provides a high-level survey of this comparative field.
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Abstract
All animals exhibit complex behaviours that share features with those that in humans we call 'emotional expressions'. Sidestepping contentious issues about the conscious experience of emotion, their expression across species provides a wealth of detail about their emergence in evolution, the shared features that distinguish them from reflexes, and principles for their neural control. This paper provides a high-level survey of this vast field. This article is part of the theme issue 'Mechanisms, development, phylogeny and functions of emotional expressions'.
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