Earlier this year, a psychology study found that babies will fake cry to get what they want — which was often their parents' attention. But according to new research at Harvard, manipulative babies have another reason for their crocodile tears: They want to prevent their parents from having sex.Killjoys.
According to David Haig, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard, babies don't want additional siblings competing for their parents' love. "I'm just suggesting that offspring have evolved to use waking up mothers and suckling more intensely to delay the birth of another sibling," said Haig. He encourages parents to train their babies to sleep through the night.
Friday, April 18, 2014
More Bad News for Winston Smith
Orwell was right -- there is a Junior Anti-Sex League:
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I'm pretty sure the theory of evolution has evolved loads of nonsense to make its practitioners feel smart.
W.B.
all i know is that babies (even toddler thru teens) sure know how to ruin a moment.
The whole bit reminds me of something Doug Wilson said; a person toting a clipboard around and asking people about their sex lives is exactly the wrong person to ask what is "normal". Exactly how would one prove that this occurs? Was there a tribe that had boatloads of kids, but died out because babies slept too soundly?
Like WB comments, Harvard seems determined to prove that their education really isn't worth north of sixty grand a year.
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