Infants only eat plants others have modeled as edible

Evidence

The answer is that infants keenly watch what other people do with plants and are only inclined to touch or eat plants that other people have already touched or eaten. In fact, once they get the “go-ahead via cultural learning, they are suddenly interested in eating plants. — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success, 273

Categorization

• XREF: This is a content/social-learning bias (modeled edibility), relevant to the reader’s conformist-vs-content bias distinction. — connects to: Modeled eating, not touching, licenses infant plant consumption — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 274; Twentieth-century psychology long held that babies bond only through feeding — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of…, 103; Girls historically imagined pregnancy as caused by eating certain foods

Broader Connections

• Girls historically imagined pregnancy as caused by eating certain foods #exemplifies (0.75)
• Twentieth-century psychology long held that babies bond only through feeding #complicates (0.72) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 103