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Not terribly relevant to your point, but it's likely human sense of cuteness is based on what babies do rather than the other way around.
I'd replace "human" with "mammalian" -- most young mammals share a similar set of traits, even those that aren't constrained as we are by big brains and a pelvic girdle adapted to walking upright. That seems to suggest a more basal cuteness response; I believe the biology term is "baby schema".
Other than that, yeah.