Talk:Moro reflex

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[edit] What is it?

But what happens when the baby hears loud noise?

A startle reflex, but not the Moro reflex.

Is this what happens when we are half asleep and we have that startled jump?

[edit] Fact?

"The origin of this reflex can be found in that fact that primate infants of our ancestors clung to their mother's fur soon after birth..." [emphasis mine]

Is the infantile behaviour of our primate ancestors so conclusively known that it can be stated as a fact? Certainly existing primates exhibit this behaviour and we can infer that our ancestors behaved similarly, but is it known how our ancestors acted? Perhaps this should be reworded or at least a citation should be provided. Clayton Rumley 03:27, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree, and I'm going to change it. - Paul