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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Humans are so big brained that we decided our children should be born premature.

Joke phrasing, serious answer. Humans are born early so that their heads can develop to a size that would be dangerous for a human to give birth to.

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