Smiling Comments

It takes about 50 muscles to raise and form a smile on thr human face. In contrast, the rictus an animal face which looks like a smile but isn't takes only a couple of muscles. Obviously, this is a complicate invention in the process of our cultural evolution. Your speaker's rejection of it strikes me as totally reasonable. He dislike of it is not meanspiritied. He just does not wsnt to indulge into something phoney frimmhis virewpoint.

It takes about 50 muscles to raise and form a smile on thr human face. In contrast, the rictus an animal face which looks like a smile but isn't takes only a couple of muscles. Obviously, this is a complicate invention in the process of our cultural eolution