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Not literally, of course. That would make us no better than hamsters or wolf spiders. But pretend baby-eating – that is, explaining to an infant that she is so cute that you just want to gobble her up, or, in extreme cases, gently grabbing a pudgy appendage and making Cookie-Monster eating sounds – is not unheard of among H. sapiens.    Why is that, anyway? Why do babies always seem so metaphorically delicious, even when you re not particularly hungry? Using brain scanners and pajamas, an international team of scientists is closing in on a answer.  Apparently it has something to do with the way babies smell. A paper published in the current issue of Frontiers in Psychology describes how researchers in Dresden, Germany, imaged the brains of two groups of 15 women while the women sampled the odors of other parents newborns. One group was composed of women who had given birth within the past six weeks. The other group was made up of women who had never given birth. The scien

Johannes frasnelliUniversity of montrealபல்கலைக்கழகம் ஆஃப் மான்ட்ரியல்