No other animal is known to blush from embarrassment, and you can't simply fake or suppress it — but a 2024 brain study suggests the reason is simpler than we thought

No other animal is known to blush from embarrassment, and you can't simply fake or suppress it — but a 2024 brain study suggests the reason is simpler than we thought

Charles Darwin spent an entire chapter near the end of a book on the problem of a red face. In 1872, in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, he called it “the most peculiar and the most human of all expressions.” He was convinced it was ours alone. “Monkeys redden from passion,” he wrote, “but it would require an overwhelming amount of evidence to make us believe that any animal could blush.” What bothered him was the cause. If blu…