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Michael Trimble

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THE SCIENCE OF TEARS

Why Do We Cry?

<p>Neurologist Michael Trimble, the author of the new book <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Why-Humans-Like-Cry-Evolutionary/dp/0199693188/" target="_blank">Why Humans Like to Cry: Tragedy, Evolution, and the Brain</a></i>, surveys the many theories of why we shed tears and what we get out of it—especially when we cry in sympathy or after we read a good book.</p>

Michael Trimble

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