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Feral Children

added by Cadence M Chance via h2g2.com An article in Scientific American suggested that humans have been around in their present form for 120,000 years. However, we only discovered language and became technologically creative as late as 40,000 years ago. So what were humans like before that? And what would we be like if the influence of our current society was not present? Feral children are children who have spent much of their formative years in the wild, without any contact with other humans for a significant period of their lives. Cases of feral children are thankfully rare, but are of immense interest from a scientific and educational point of view. Feral children provide data which help to answer a number of questions: How close is human nature to the nature of an animal? What aspects of human nature are genetic, and what aspects are learned What does consciousness mean? Could we learn how to speak to animals, or could we teach animals to speak to humans? Studies of feral children in the past have lead to breakthroughs in the education of people with learning disabilities, and indirectly has lead to the development of sign-language and Braille. More ... Less ...
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