Darwin interpreted the universality of emotional response as support for the idea that all humans are decended from a "single parent stock"; by this, he meant that emotions developed
A) early in our evolutionary history.
B)from mating and parenting behaviors.
C) out of a single physiological state.
D) through early mother-infant interactions.

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Darwin believed that emotions were present in humans from early in our evolutionary history, and therefore shared by all humans as a result of our common ancestry. This is consistent with the idea that emotions evolved as a way of facilitating survival and reproduction in our distant ancestors.

Darwin Interpreted the Universality of Emotional Response as Support for the Idea