Infants may cry and seem demanding, leading us to assume that they have no sense of what the adults in their lives need, but a new study presents the first evidence that a basic sense of fairness and altruism appears in infancy.
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Does your birth date determine your future–your personality, or physical or mental health? (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). According to a new study, the season in which you are born may affect everything from your eyesight to your eating habits and overall health later in life.
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In 1995, in a study published in Nature magazine, aresearcher asked 122 people to try to match the pictures ofchildren they didn’t know with photos of their mothers andfathers. They correctly paired about half of the infantswith their fathers, but had a much lower success rate whentrying to match infants with photos of their mothers,proving that babies really do tend to resemble their dads.Scientists think this may be a natural paternity test, thatpredates current DNA tests.
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