The Origins of Cute
Hank talks about three scientific reasons why cute things make us a special kind of crazy. Like SciShow on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Follow ...
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I'm sure you've noticed, that babies, are freakin' cute. Like baby people, but also like baby dogs, and cats, and pygmy hippos and dolphins. Well there are...some...ugly babies. But as a general rule, they are adorable, and cute stuff makes people a special kind of crazy... and we'd be horrible scientists if we didn't ask why. Let us begin what it is that we find so cute about babies. They've got...big eyes smack in the middle of a fat face, and thick, short, clumsy limbs. Doesn't...sound that cute when you say it, but baby humans didn't evolve to be cute, we evolved to think baby humans are cute. We instinctively find that collection of characteristics I just described to be totally irresistible, because from an evolutionary standpoint, babies are the ma...
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I'm sure you've noticed, that babies, are freakin' cute. Like baby people, but also like baby dogs, and cats, and pygmy hippos and dolphins. Well there are...some...ugly babies. But as a general rule, they are adorable, and cute stuff makes people a special kind of crazy... and we'd be horrible scientists if we didn't ask why. Let us begin what it is that we find so cute about babies. They've got...big eyes smack in the middle of a fat face, and thick, short, clumsy limbs. Doesn't...sound that cute when you say it, but baby humans didn't evolve to be cute, we evolved to think baby humans are cute. We instinctively find that collection of characteristics I just described to be totally irresistible, because from an evolutionary standpoint, babies are the ma...
