Social cognition: Evolutionary history of emotional engagements with infants.
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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Kim A
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Centre for the Study of Emotion, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK. kim.bard@port.ac.uk
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