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Why do we blush?
Humans are the only species that blush. Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi discovers why.
Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi asks why we blush. Even Darwin was intrigued by blushing. He called it 鈥渢he most peculiar and most human of all expression鈥 but didn鈥檛 think it had a function. Dr Laith Al-Shawaf from the University of Colorado makes students do embarrassing things to understand why we blush and how blushing can make people like you more when you make a mistake.
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Fri 7 Mar 2025
14:45
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