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Revisiting the baby schema by a geometric morphometric analysis of infant facial characteristics across great apes

Infants across species are thought to exhibit specific facial features (termed the “baby schema”, such as a relatively bigger forehead and eyes, and protruding cheeks), with an adaptive function to induce caretaking behaviour from adults. There is abundant empirical evidence for this in humans, but,...

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Autores principales: Kawaguchi, Yuri, Nakamura, Koyo, Tajima, Tomoyuki, Waller, Bridget M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10060388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36991032
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31731-4