Eli5-Why are humans so smart in comparison to other mammals but human babies are so helpless?

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For example even puppies will understand to crawl over and latch to mother, primates come out clinging to mother, horses and goats can walk, yet babies have to be taken care of for so long and are helpless!

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Because human development all about learning, we have to figure out how things work. We’re not in the same situation where we’ll die if we can’t run at top speed as soon as we’re born, we aren’t expected to be able to be self reliant as toddlers either. So it benefits us most to take to time to learn things.

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