Why babies cry so loud, as the noise can potentially attract predators in the wild?
In: Biology
Primarily humans where settled in dwellings, with babies being communally cared for, so while it may have attracted predators, we had a degree of fortification, fire or just sheer numbers to ward them off in the home area. If you look at monkeys, their babies are almost completely passive, being almost more akin to a kangaroo than the screaming parasite they evolved into with the homo- genus.
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