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. 2009 Nov 3;19(20):R941-3.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.09.037.

Social cognition: Evolutionary history of emotional engagements with infants

Kim A Bard  1
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Social cognition: Evolutionary history of emotional engagements with infants

Kim A Bard. Curr Biol. .
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A new mother and baby gaze into each other's eyes, mutually engaging with facial expressions, kisses and greetings. A new study shows that this behaviour is not uniquely human: such intersubjective interactions may have an evolutionary history of at least 30 million years.

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