why some animals learn to walk minutes after they are born, but humans can take a whole year to do that?
In: Biology
A developed infant human brain/head/skull is too big to come out of mom fully developed – it would kill her and probably lead to birth complications for the baby (evolution was before C-sections had been finessed). So we have to come out of mom half-developed, when our head is barely small enough to fit through the birth canal. At the equivalent developmental point for other animals, they would still be in the womb, developing.
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