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Yup, that was a Monday
Dec. 1st, 2009 12:22 amToday was one of those days where nothing seems to go right. Power outages, printer mishaps, dead technology preventing my from doing my planned powerpoint lecture... Thank God for cute kittens.
This is one of the rare science articles that made my day better: Biologists suggest Humans may be Naturally Cooperative, Altruistic
..."biologists are beginning to form a generally sunnier view of humankind. Their conclusions are derived in part from testing very young children, and partly from comparing human children with those of chimpanzees, hoping that the differences will point to what is distinctively human.
The somewhat surprising answer at which some biologists have arrived is that babies are innately sociable and helpful to others. Of course every animal must to some extent be selfish to survive. But the biologists also see in humans a natural willingness to help."
This is one of the rare science articles that made my day better: Biologists suggest Humans may be Naturally Cooperative, Altruistic
..."biologists are beginning to form a generally sunnier view of humankind. Their conclusions are derived in part from testing very young children, and partly from comparing human children with those of chimpanzees, hoping that the differences will point to what is distinctively human.
The somewhat surprising answer at which some biologists have arrived is that babies are innately sociable and helpful to others. Of course every animal must to some extent be selfish to survive. But the biologists also see in humans a natural willingness to help."
