Harvard University's Laboratory for Developmental Studies, colloquially known as the "Baby Lab" is an important center for research into human development. The various research groups at the Baby Lab cover many different areas; Felix Warneken's lab, for example, studies the development of human cooperation, while Elizabeth Spelke is concerned with determining what knowledge human infants are born with. Researching human development certainly produces fascinating findings, but there are perhaps stronger reasons why the lab might hold interest for a layperson. I'm talking, of course, about adorable videos of human and chimpanzee toddlers which have been produced by its researchers.
Note: these videos were actually filmed at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, but one of the researchers who worked on them, Felix Warneken, is now a professor at the Harvard Laboratory for Developmental Studies.
Note: these videos were actually filmed at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, but one of the researchers who worked on them, Felix Warneken, is now a professor at the Harvard Laboratory for Developmental Studies.
