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Viewing childhood development as a scientific investigation provides insight
into?how?children?learn,?but?it?also?offers?a?provocative?perspective?on?sci-
ence?and?scientists.?Why?do?young?children?and?scientists?seem?to?be?so?much?
alike??Psychologists?Alison?Gopnik,?Andrew?Meltzoff,?and?Patricia?Kuhl?have?
proposed that science as an endeavor — the impulse to explore, explain, and
understand our world — is simply a holdover from our infancies. Perhaps evolu-
tion?endowed?human?babies?with?curiosity?and?a?natural?drive?to?explain?their?
worlds — and adult scientists simply tap into the
same explanatory drive that
served them as infants. The same cognitive systems that make young children
feel?good?about?figuring?something?out?may?have?been?unwittingly?co-opted?by?
adult scientists. As Gopnik and her colleagues put it, ‘It
is not that children are
little?scientists?but?that?scientists?are?big?children.’?
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