Babies as young as 18 months can tell when adults need assistance and will often do their best to help -- lifting things, opening doors, retrieving objects. Researchers believe that such early helpfulness is a sign of humans' capacity for altruism -- which is rare in the animal kingdom.
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Babies as young as 18 months can tell when adults need assistance and will often do their best to help -- lifting things, opening doors, retrieving objects. Researchers believe that such early helpfulness is a sign of humans' capacity for altruism -- which is rare in the animal kingdom.