
The Evolutionary Inference
January 7, 2008
Today’s Darwinian Just-So Story comes from a paper in PNAS.1 Three Italian scientists did experiments on the perception of two-day old human infants. They found that the babies tended to pay more attention to biological motion than non-biological motion, and looked longer at right-side-up displays than upside-down ones. Their conclusion: “These data support the hypothesis […]