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30: The Fear Factor with Abigail Marsh

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The Importance of Facial Baby-Ishness

The author says he quit three days into his first premed bio class at Dartmouth. He was doing research on how we perceive differences in facial age when the idea came to him. "I think fearful expressions came to look the way they do because they look baby-ish and so they signal that you were vulnerable and you need help" The book is published by Simon & Schuster, priced $25.

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