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while the other 80 percent are “fast”types who venture forth boldly withoutnoticing much of what’s going onaround them. (Intriguingly, the percentageof infants in Kagan’s lab who wereborn high-reactive was also, you’ll recall,about twenty.)If “fast” and “slow” animals hadparties, writes the evolutionary biologistDavid Sloan Wilson, “some of thefasts would bore everyone with theirloud conversation, while others wouldmutter into their beer that they don’tget any respect. Slow animals are bestdescribed as shy, sensitive types. Theydon’t assert themselves, but they areobservant and notice things that are invisibleto the bullies. They are thewriters and artists at the party whohave interesting conversations out ofearshot of the bullies. They are the inventorswho figure out new ways to423/929