wolfdancer
08-27-2008, 02:51 PM
PARIS (AFP) - Humans are selfish in earliest childhood but by the age of seven or eight are keen to share equally, a developmental change so sudden that it can only be explained, at least in part, by genes, according to a study released Wednesday.
Behavioral scientists and sociologists have quarreled for decades as to whether generosity and selfishness are inherited or result from social conditioning.
But new experiments with 229 Swiss children between the ages of three and eight suggest that Homo Sapiens is probably somewhere in between: humans look out for No. 1, but also express, if not outright generosity, at least an aversion to inequality
Obviously the right lacks the sharing gene......or haven't outgrown their early childhood selfishness /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/mad.gif
Behavioral scientists and sociologists have quarreled for decades as to whether generosity and selfishness are inherited or result from social conditioning.
But new experiments with 229 Swiss children between the ages of three and eight suggest that Homo Sapiens is probably somewhere in between: humans look out for No. 1, but also express, if not outright generosity, at least an aversion to inequality
Obviously the right lacks the sharing gene......or haven't outgrown their early childhood selfishness /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/mad.gif