
Patricia Churchland on What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About Morality (originally on Bioethics Bites)
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The Role of Oxytosen in Parent Infant Bonding
The role of oxitosand in parent infant bonding has been known for a while. A discovery about ten years ago suggested something that gave us insight into how care, an attachment can extend beyond ad offspring, to unrelated others, to friends and so forth. The insight that followed this was really important, and that is you can make a small genetic change having to do with small aspects of circuitry,. And you can get things like mate attachment, or attachment, or kith attachment, attachment to friends and others in the group.
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