Emotional expressions are inside most of the things we love, not just faces

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The greatest joys in life come from the emotional expressions from other humans.

Do you just totally love music? That’s because music culturally evolved to sound like a person evocatively moving in your midst. See my book, HARNESSED.

Would life without color be a joyless one? That’s because our primate variety color vision evolved to see color emotions on bare skin, like blushes and blanches. See my book, VISION REVOLUTION.

How about your love of the visual arts more generally? Much of even abstract art is built from stimuli that mimic facets of human bodies, although the artist and viewer don’t consciously appreciate that fact. See my book, ON THE ORIGIN OF ART, with co-authors Steven Pinker, Geoffrey Miller & Brian Boyd.

And, how has life been without human faces? Sterile, lifeless and depressing. That’s because masks destroy our main human manner of communicating, our emotional expressions. See Dr. Tim Barber and my book, EXPRESSLY HUMAN.

Ban the emotional expressiveness of human beings, and you ban life itself.