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Pablo Torre referenced this 1872 seminal text during a discussion on the scientific mystery behind emotional crying. He highlighted how Charles Darwin famously concluded that weeping was 'purposeless' because he could not identify a logical evolutionary reason for the behavior. The book was used to provide historical context on how even the father of evolutionary theory struggled to explain human tears.
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This seminal text from 1872 was referenced when discussing the scientific puzzle of why humans cry emotionally. Darwin reportedly concluded that weeping was 'purposeless' because he could not find a logical evolutionary reason for salty water secretion during emotional moments.
And no less an authority than Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary theory, wrote a seminal text in 1872 that was titled The Emotional Expression of Man and Animals.
Charles Darwin actually declared weeping to be quote, purposeless, end quote,