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Like dad? Like mom? Who is the child more like?
Lead: It's best not to think about marrying handsome guys and beautiful women to create the looks of future generations. Scientists have found that children look the same as their parents. Some people often say, "Give birth to a daughter like a father and a son like a mother". Some people think that the baby's appearance will be deeply influenced by his father and will be more like his father. Is it true?/You don't say. In recent years, a series of scientific research results have concluded that although some babies are more like their father and some are more like their mother, most babies are similar to their parents. People always think that babies look more like their fathers. There is a plausible evolutionary explanation for this view: because fathers are not as sure that their children are their own as mothers, they tend to invest their own resources in their offspring. In the process of human evolution, perhaps making the newborn child more like the father can be used as a way to confirm the parent-child relationship? From 65438 to 0995, a study published in Nature seems to support this hypothesis. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, shows that many people are more likely to recognize their fathers when looking for photos of their parents that match their one-year-old children. In this regard, Robert French, a psychologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research, said: "The research results of 1995 are very easy to believe, which is consistent with the results predicted by evolutionary psychology, but I think this is wrong." The results of the follow-up research are in conflict with the conclusion of 1995, and the similarities between babies and their parents are the same. Even other studies have found that babies are more like mothers. 1999 In a study published in Evolution and Human Behavior, researchers from French and the University of Liege in Belgium repeated the paternal similarity experiment, but came to different conclusions: children are similar to their parents to the same extent. A more recent study published in this magazine in 2004 used more photos than the previous two experiments, and concluded that although some babies are more like their father and some are more like their mother, most babies are similar to their parents. Paula Braissand, a psychologist at the University of Padua in Italy who participated in this research, said that as far as she knows, there is no other research that can repeat or support the conclusion that "children are more like fathers" in 1995. Evolution and Human Behavior published two other studies in 2000 and 2007, which showed that newborns were indeed more like their mothers in the first three days after birth, while newborn mothers thought their children were more like their fathers. Researchers surveyed in 2000 believed that a mother's biased words could not truly reflect the actual similarity, and might just confirm the child's father's conditioned reflex. The researchers even speculate that the pressure of evolution may actually reduce the similarity between the newborn and the father, and the mother's statement is to confirm that a logically presumed father will like the child, even if the child is not actually the man's. "It's hard to distinguish those rumors from the real products of evolution," French said.