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ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2026

Comparative neuroanatomy of emotion expression: from flies to humans.

Ralph Adolphs

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Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Exploring emotional expression in invertebrates: mechanisms, functions and phylogeny.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Ralph AdolphsDepartment of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8053-9692

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

All animals exhibit complex behaviours that share features with those that in humans we call 'emotional expressions'. Sidestepping contentious issues about the conscious experience of emotion, their expression across species provides a wealth of detail about their emergence in evolution, the shared features that distinguish them from reflexes, and principles for their neural control. This paper provides a high-level survey of this vast field. This article is part of the theme issue 'Mechanisms, development, phylogeny and functions of emotional expressions'.

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BrainEmotionsFacial ExpressionAnimalsBiological EvolutionHumansamygdalacomparative physiologyemotionfacial expressionhypothalamusperiaqueductal grey

Identifiers

PMID42779425
PMCPMC13601884

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