kids may be hardwired to share and share alike: study


	kids may be hardwired to share and share alike: study

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                                        Kids may be hardwired to 'share and share alike': study                </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080827/sc_afp/sciencechildrenpsychologyevolution"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/3C6D342B-BFDD-4FAC-B41E-99222106CEC3" alt="German toddlers, seen in 2007, choose toys to play with in the garden at the Spreekita Kindergarten in Berlin. 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.(AFP/File/John Macdougall)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080827/sc_afp/sciencechildrenpsychologyevolution"><P>
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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.                        
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Behavioural scientists and sociologists have quarrelled for decades as to whether generosity and selfishness are inherited or result from social conditioning.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080827/sc_afp/sciencechildrenpsychologyevolution"><P>
But new experiments with 229 Swiss children between the ages of three and eight suggest that <SPAN id="lw_1219859557_0" class="yshortcuts">Homo sapiens</SPAN> is probably somewhere in between: humans look out for No. 1, but also express, if not outright generosity, at least an aversion to inequality.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080827/sc_afp/sciencechildrenpsychologyevolution"><P>
At least one result was unexpected, said Fehr: children with no siblings were more, rather than less, generous.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/790B6370-89A9-4546-B80E-9EB7F1B5F022/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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