Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo
by Iolaum on Thursday December 03, 2020 @12:26AM
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There have some rare extreme been cases where children lived with wild animals in forests and indeed they resembled their social behaviours. (Don't recall sources to include :( )
Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo
by astrange on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:10AM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child
Some of these stories are doubtful and obviously none of them are all that scientific… for one thing why are all the reports from Russia?
Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo
by sebmellen on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:11AM
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The story of Victor of Aveyron has substantial evidence behind it. There are certainly very few feral children, but they do exist.
Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo
by astrange on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:04AM
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That's believable, but it can't teach us much because it's not an intervention study, which obviously you can't do…
> According to Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard, Victor was a normal child at birth[citation needed] but was neglected by his alcoholic parents from an early age.
Hmm. Did they know about fetal alcohol syndrome then? It's suggested he was autistic, which would've been true at birth.
Re:Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo
by sebmellen on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:26AM
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That's true. Unfortunately real cases are few and far between, so they're hard to study in any sort of methodic way. Plus, as time goes on and society becomes more pervasive, these cases will get progressively rarer.
I think FASD is a good guess.
Statements like these only make sense in a narrow context. Unless you're suggesting a dog raised like a human would act more like a human than a dog.