Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
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128 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If one of these aloe mothers happens to be nursing, the baby's first sweet taste of milk will come from her.
Soon, babies will be monitoring nearby others, deciding who responds, figuring out how best to engage and appeal to them.
By six months, the sharp little milk teeth are peeking through their gums.
Their appeals might be rewarded with kiss-fed treats, maybe honey-sweetened saliva or pre-masticated meat.
And babies soon are learning to reciprocate, starting to share.
Babies everywhere will just spontaneously offer food to somebody else.
Anybody, really.
Active agents in their own survival, babies are flexible about who or what they attach or consider as family.
something to keep in mind if robots are programmed to respond even more rapidly and reliably than preoccupied parents do.
And as they get older, they will spontaneously point to things.
or hold something out, as if saying, what do you think of this?
What should I think of this?
Eager to engage with other minds and learn what they're thinking.
They care, they care very much who notices them do something nice, like a toddler rushing to pick up something someone has dropped and hand it back.
They care, not just with what others think, but with what others think about them, their reputations.
As developmental psychologists were learning just how other-regarding human babies are, neuroscientists using new baby-friendly technologies made a surprising discovery.
With a soft, wired cap slipped on the baby's head, neural activity was detected in the medial prefrontal cortex, long before most neuroscientists even assumed it was active yet.
as babies process eye gaze, actions, deciding who to trust, emulate and love.
Little humans process their physical world in much the same way other apes do.
Nothing much different there.
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