NancyLebovitz comments on Open Thread: January 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 05 January 2010 12:02:08PM 1 point [-]

A lot of animals need touch to grow up well. Only humans need touch to survive.

A General Theory of Love describes experiments with baby rodents to determine which physical systems are affected by which aspects of contact with the mother-- touch is crucial for one system, smell for another.