Agreed. Everybody gets this wrong. On Nova I saw a frivolous study that showed babies 'imitating' parents as young as a few weeks. The evidence? A parent face

Agreed. Everybody gets this wrong. On Nova I saw a frivolous study that showed babies 'imitating' parents as young as a few weeks. The evidence? A parent face to face with a baby would repeat the babies' random expression. Occasionally the baby would make an expression again. Voila - imitation! Or randomness I guess. Hard to know without actually measuring something and doing statistics. But stories like this are fun and make a good news bite, so we'll continue to see them pop up.