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

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Comment author: Kutta 23 February 2010 11:23:06AM *  1 point [-]

Our sense of cuteness may be tuned to respond optimally to young children, instead of newborns.

Mortality among ancestral newborns were rampant so caring for them was probably of less marginal utility than caring for young children, I think.