Darwinian Crowdsourcing Chances are if you went to a party at Chuck Darwin’s house in 1868 you would have been a bit taken aback by the naturalist’s newest hobby. Instead of discussing the finer points of natural selection and inheritance in the light of Gregor Mendel’s recently published “Experiments in Plant Hybridization” (which Darwin was actually unaware of), he probably would have shown you these pictures.  The popularization of early photographic techniques in the 19th century allowed Darwin to conduct an impartial psychological experiment on the gut reactions to human expression. It was part of his search for universal core emotions, a debate that still goes on today (although nonhuman primates like chimpanzees appear to recognize them). Twenty-four people were presented with these photos and others, in order to collect their interpretation of the expressions shown (or forced). Last year, the Darwin Correspondence Project invited the online world to take part in the experiment. 18,000 people responded, and you can view the expanded results of Darwin’s strange emotional experiment nearly 150 years after his original version. (↬ Wired)
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Darwinian Crowdsourcing Chances are if you went to a party at Chuck Darwin’s house in 1868 you would have been a bit taken aback by the naturalist’s newest hobby. Instead of discussing the finer points of natural selection and inheritance in the light of Gregor Mendel’s recently published “Experiments in Plant Hybridization” (which Darwin was actually unaware of), he probably would have shown you these pictures.  The popularization of early photographic techniques in the 19th century allowed Darwin to conduct an impartial psychological experiment on the gut reactions to human expression. It was part of his search for universal core emotions, a debate that still goes on today (although nonhuman primates like chimpanzees appear to recognize them). Twenty-four people were presented with these photos and others, in order to collect their interpretation of the expressions shown (or forced). Last year, the Darwin Correspondence Project invited the online world to take part in the experiment. 18,000 people responded, and you can view the expanded results of Darwin’s strange emotional experiment nearly 150 years after his original version. (↬ Wired)
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Darwinian Crowdsourcing Chances are if you went to a party at Chuck Darwin’s house in 1868 you would have been a bit taken aback by the naturalist’s newest hobby. Instead of discussing the finer points of natural selection and inheritance in the light of Gregor Mendel’s recently published “Experiments in Plant Hybridization” (which Darwin was actually unaware of), he probably would have shown you these pictures.  The popularization of early photographic techniques in the 19th century allowed Darwin to conduct an impartial psychological experiment on the gut reactions to human expression. It was part of his search for universal core emotions, a debate that still goes on today (although nonhuman primates like chimpanzees appear to recognize them). Twenty-four people were presented with these photos and others, in order to collect their interpretation of the expressions shown (or forced). Last year, the Darwin Correspondence Project invited the online world to take part in the experiment. 18,000 people responded, and you can view the expanded results of Darwin’s strange emotional experiment nearly 150 years after his original version. (↬ Wired)
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Darwinian Crowdsourcing Chances are if you went to a party at Chuck Darwin’s house in 1868 you would have been a bit taken aback by the naturalist’s newest hobby. Instead of discussing the finer points of natural selection and inheritance in the light of Gregor Mendel’s recently published “Experiments in Plant Hybridization” (which Darwin was actually unaware of), he probably would have shown you these pictures.  The popularization of early photographic techniques in the 19th century allowed Darwin to conduct an impartial psychological experiment on the gut reactions to human expression. It was part of his search for universal core emotions, a debate that still goes on today (although nonhuman primates like chimpanzees appear to recognize them). Twenty-four people were presented with these photos and others, in order to collect their interpretation of the expressions shown (or forced). Last year, the Darwin Correspondence Project invited the online world to take part in the experiment. 18,000 people responded, and you can view the expanded results of Darwin’s strange emotional experiment nearly 150 years after his original version. (↬ Wired)
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Darwinian Crowdsourcing

Chances are if you went to a party at Chuck Darwin’s house in 1868 you would have been a bit taken aback by the naturalist’s newest hobby. Instead of discussing the finer points of natural selection and inheritance in the light of Gregor Mendel’s recently published “Experiments in Plant Hybridization” (which Darwin was actually unaware of), he probably would have shown you these pictures. 

The popularization of early photographic techniques in the 19th century allowed Darwin to conduct an impartial psychological experiment on the gut reactions to human expression. It was part of his search for universal core emotions, a debate that still goes on today (although nonhuman primates like chimpanzees appear to recognize them). Twenty-four people were presented with these photos and others, in order to collect their interpretation of the expressions shown (or forced).

Last year, the Darwin Correspondence Project invited the online world to take part in the experiment. 18,000 people responded, and you can view the expanded results of Darwin’s strange emotional experiment nearly 150 years after his original version.

(↬ Wired)

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