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My own success came on my ninth birthday, when I finally received Huggy, a nervous lurcher with an inexplicably human smile.
Now take away visual clues – the human smile, the knowing touch, the gentle, jokey jab to the shoulder that would soften a real world "RTFM, NOOB" – and you can understand what a glorious day it must have been when man realised he could, with three simple keystrokes, put a facial expression on an impersonal medium.
This seems to mean different things in different species: in some macaques, it's a sign of submission, but in gelada baboons and chimpanzees, it's more appeasing and helps social bonding – in other words, it really does seem to be the equivalent of a human smile.
There is also, similarly, the striking approximation of a human smile on the face of every pig, even a slaughtered one hung upside down by the hocks: the small eyes close tight in mirth and the mouth hangs open in a pleasant expression made worse by the color of the face, which, in its pallor, approximates the colour of Nordic human flesh".
It was between "Stock photo of a bunch of survey check boxes" and this picture of a cat with a human smile – which would you have chosen?
For example, van Hoof has argued that the bare-teeth display of chimpanzees is homologous to the human smile (van Hoof 1973).
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Dr. Niedenthal thinks that some human smiles fall into these categories as well.
He keeps the storylines reasonably taut and his characters are capable of normal human smiling.
Primatologists have been able to sort smiles into a few categories, and Dr. Niedenthal thinks that human smiles should be classified in the same way.
The scientists report in the journal Biology Letters that they made high quality, large size colour prints of the same male human smiling and baring his teeth, and frowning and baring his teeth: expressions of positive and negative emotions from a stranger.
Silent bared teeth - equivalent of human smiles and often used to signal a peaceful intention such as grooming or an embrace.
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