Why do babies sleep so long? If it is so that there body can get time to develop, why isn’t that time spent in the womb instead?

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Why do babies sleep so long? If it is so that there body can get time to develop, why isn’t that time spent in the womb instead?

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Human babies are born underdeveloped; if they stayed until fully developed (like for example young horses), their heads would be too big for natural birth. So being underdeveloped, they spend most of the time sleeping since they can’t walk, can’t run, their senses are still developing etc etc etc

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