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EJ450564 PS519729
Title: Children's Awareness of the Biological Implications of
Kinship.
Author(s) Springer, Ken
Source: Child Development, v63 n4 p950-59 Aug 1992
Publication Date: 1992
ISSN: 0009-3920
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJJAN1993
Children were asked whether each of two animals shared a biological
property with a target animal. When kinship relations were specified
for the animals, children judged that dissimilar-looking kin shared
more biological properties than similar-looking but unrelated members
of the same species. (BC)
Descriptors: *Animals; *Childhood Attitudes; *Kinship; *Physical
Characteristics; *Young Children
