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Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week:
"Amazingly, babies as small as 12 months old show some understanding of the difference between the deliberate and goal-directed "agents" that can cause order, such as a person, and those randomly acting inanimate objects that cannot, such as a bouncing ball." Daniel Daza of the Ego Sum Daza blog explores an interesting new PNAS paper. Babies, Balls, and Creationists.
Sandy Gautam of The Mouse Trap wonders: is altruism the result of sexual selection?
Finally, welcome John Wayland of the new History of Psychology blog to the science blogosphere! Check out this particularly interesting post, The History of Smoking Bans & Anti-Smoking Sentiment