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In 1872, British naturalist Charles Darwin states in his book The expression of emotions in man and animals the universality of six basic emotions -joy, surprise, loath, anger, fear and sadness- expressed by almost all humankind using the same facial muscles in a similar way.
Recent transcultural studies* confronts the excessive occidentality of this theory with the existent differences in the way the face is used as a vehicle for the transmisssion of emotions from east to west.
Once the fickleness of expressive machinery has been yet stated, we will go further in the sublimation of nonverbal communication generating for each face it's own sound composition.
* Jack, R.E.; Garrod, O.G.B.; Yu, H.; Caldara, R.; Schyns, P.G. “Facial expressions of emotion are not culturally universal”. PNAS: 1-4, 16 de abril de 2012. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1200155109