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Are you just being polite?

Are you just being polite?  Evolutionary psychologists say finely tuned expressions may derive from our early ancestors’ need to communicate quickly, wordlessly. A grimace might say, “Run! There’s a dangerous creature here!”A nose wrinkled in disgust would signal, “Don’t eat this. It’s rotten!” [When anthropologists] found that people in different ethnic groups all identified photographs