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Old December 1st, 2009, 09:55 PM
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Default Nearly a Century Later, Biology Catches Up With Alfred Adler

From The New York Times, November 30, 2009

We May Be Born With an Urge to Help
What is the essence of human nature? Flawed, say many theologians. Vicious and addicted to warfare, wrote Hobbes. Selfish and in need of considerable improvement, think many parents.

But biologists are beginning to form a generally sunnier view of humankind. Their conclusions are derived in part from testing very young children, and partly from comparing human children with those of chimpanzees, hoping that the differences will point to what is distinctively human.

The somewhat surprising answer at which some biologists have arrived is that babies are innately sociable and helpful to others. Of course every animal must to some extent be selfish to survive. But the biologists also see in humans a natural willingness to help
(See http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/sc...1human.html?em for complete article.)

It has taken biology nearly a century to catch up with Alfted Adler!
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