Most of the people responds with tenderness and delight to cute babies and toddlers because each one of us has a built-in desire for sweet things.
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A research has shown that finding babies cute is no quirk of culture or optional effect of fashion but a worldwide trait, the Huffington Post reported.
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In "altricial" species, which means "requiring nourishment", offspring require considerable parental care to reach self-sufficiency.
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The young tend to have "baby faces," which apparently provoke nurturing and cuddling behaviours in adults of the species.