Alicorn comments on Babies and Bunnies: A Caution About Evo-Psych - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 22 February 2010 05:44:33AM *  4 points [-]

Things other than cuteness are at work when people decide what to take videos of. Possible considerations here:

1) Babies live in people's houses. Fewer bunnies do.

2) People are interested in babies as relatives, conspecifics, and insight into child psychology.

3) Babies - past a certain very young age, anyway - have a wider range of behavior than bunnies.

4) People like to document the lives of their children for future reference.