I recently saw a video of an elephant being born and it immediately got up and attempted to walk. It was fairly successful too.
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Most things are born knowing how to use their body.
Humans are pretty unique in how bad our babies are. It’s like 50% that walking upright messed up our hips and now babies have to be born through too small a gap in the bones so we have to have mushy half baked babies. Human babies don’t even have the fat around most of the nerve cells in their brain at birth. Meaning a good section of a baby’s brain just doesn’t work at all. They move all weird because they literally just don’t have functional motor control sections of their brain. They couldn’t walk even if they knew how because their brain just doesn’t function right for months. because humans had to give birth too early because the mom would die if their head got any bigger or harder so they get a mushy half grown head then come out and finish after.
50% is just, there was millions of years of evolving to have babies born to walk on 4 legs, evolution perfected baking that right into new born animals. Then we walk all weird, so there hasn’t been any time for software updates. We basically threw away all the evolution over all the millions of years for encoding how to walk on 4 legs things usually get and have to learn a whole new skill of 2 leg walking. Even a baby crawling on it’s knees doesn’t really walk like a 4 leg animal does.
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