Mead seems to have made some tart but insubstantial criticisms of Ekman's work, and the whole story is interesting to read for its sociology as well as its science. The edition also has six new appendices and an extensive apparatus of commentaries. Special attention has been paid to the illustrations. The Expression of the Emotions was one of the first scientific books to use photographs, and certain problems arose in the publication. All these problems have been fixed, as well as they can be.
Bibliophiles tend toward a gloomy view of the progress of human civilization.
Ekman's edition, however, is well printed, well bound and is the best production of Darwin's book ever published. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is one of Darwin's most readable works. It is alive with anecdotes, literary quotations and his own observations of his friends and children.