#9: Endless Expressions

If you own a smartphone, you know that there are hundreds of emojis that are set out to depict how we are feeling at a certain moment in time. Now, we’re no smartphones, but the human face can create over 6000 different types of facial expressions (without the help of any apps!). This is all by using the muscles in our faces to show all sorts of emotions.

The fact that you can see many different facial expressions in the human face, as opposed to say, a monkey’s, is that the human face has less facial hair. That may sound silly, but it does allow us to see more movement in the face, and thus, a wider range of facial expressions.