Charles Darwin:
A) contended that nonhuman animals do not experience emotions.
B) believed that anthropomorphism was the best methodology for scientifically investigating emotions in nonhuman animals.
C) believed that the capacity to experience emotion is an evolved trait that humans share with lower animals.
D) argued that emotional expression in humans is completely different from the instinctive displays of nonhuman animals.

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Charles Darwin believed that the capacity to experience emotions is an evolved trait that humans share with lower animals. He argued that emotions have an evolutionary function and that they could be studied in nonhuman animals by observing their instinctive displays. He did not believe in anthropomorphism, which is the attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman animals. Thus, options A, B, and D are incorrect.