The Importance of Crying in the Eyes of Helpless New Born Infants

There are elements of this infant scheme that are based not only on static physical appearance, but in behavior. A rose or russ argued that human crying, including the shedding of liquid from the eyes, was selected by evolution for this reason. It made the faces of juveniles and then even adults, resemble more closely the faces of helpless new born infants. So under this hypothesis, crying, even in adults, is a way of triggering sort of neural cuteness alarm in our heads to turning us into infant givers,. Even when the person crying is not actually an infant.