eli5: why do human babies take so long to mature and develop whilst most animal babies can do things on their own very shortly after birth?
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Our survival strategy is to have big brains and rely on our social group to keep the kids alive long enough that they can fully brain.
Most animals survival strategy is “welcome to the world, don’t get eaten, it’s time to run for the life you just got cause a predator watched you be born. ”
To do the same as a human you’d have to give birth to like a 2 year old or something. We’d need hips that are wildly wider than humans have today to evolve like that. WILDLY wider.
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