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 we are so intelligent and have generally zero problems from predators when we are born and haven’t for thousands of years, we didn’t evolve in a way that would keep us alive from birth or that makes us grow exceptionally fast. There’s a few other animals that have quite long maturing periods as well but ours is unusually long because of our species mixed with how damn well we survive. If it were a problem we wouldn’t be the most heavily populated thing on this planet

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