Baby’s resemblance to parents

Exercise

Explain these results: “Of the mothers who commented on the baby's resemblance to one of the parents, 81 percent indicated that the baby was more similar to the father.” ‘Subjects [in an experiment where they were shown pictures of three adults and the child of one of them] correctly matched one-year-old children with their actual fathers 49.2 percent of the time.... In contrast, subjects were not able to correctly match one-year-olds with their biological mothers at a rate greater than chance’ (David Buss, Evolutionary Psychology)”. (David Friedman, at http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Miscellaneous/past\_quotes\_of\_the\_week.htm, accessed April 10, 2004).