Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article:  Ransom, Cliff (03.18.2014), The virtues of curiosity, Popular Science, Retrieved on 2014-04-21
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    21 APR 2014

     Childlike Curiosity is a Virtue

    As a species, humans manifest a quality called neoteny, the retention of juvenile characteristics into adulthood. Neoteny has physical ramifications—scarce body hair and a flat face are two examples—but it also has neurological ones. Namely, we have an extraordinary capacity to continue learning throughout life. If neoteny helps to explain our ability to learn, researchers are now figuring out what drives us to take advantage of it. In 2008, a group of scientists set up a novel fMRI stu...
    Folksonomies: evolution virtue curiosity
    Folksonomies: evolution virtue curiosity
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    An neotenatal evolutionary adaptation that allows us lifelong learning.

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