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Those are the ingredients for cute.
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Stephen Jay Gould has a wonderful essay
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where he discussed this,
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looking at the evolution of Mickey Mouse
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from the Walt Disney character.
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Mickey Mouse starts off as an ugly, little rodent.
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Over time he gets cuter and cuter and cuter
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as the artist converged on more and more baby-like features.
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Studies of adults show what's known as a baby-face bias.
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This is not unique to the United States.
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The same studies have been done in Asia.
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You find a baby face in an adult,