Tag: altricial

• Transport Response

  

  Wouldn’t it be great if there was some infallible trick to calm a crying baby? According to science, there just might be. (Get on your walking shoes.)

  Aradia Wyndham

  October 30, 2017

  Evolution of Babywearing

  20th century, altricial, ambulatory carrying, Anneliese Korner, attachment, babywearing, Caroline Ross, carrying, chronic pain, crying, David Pederson, disability, Evelyn Thoman, Gianluca Esposito, holding, Ian St. James-Roberts, IMMR, Italy, Jeremy DeSilva, mammals, newborns, parasympathetic, parkers, precocious, relaxation, research, riders, supplemental carrying, technology, touch, transport response, Urs Hunziker, vestibular proprioceptive stimulation, walking

• Big Babies

  

  It’s not just that human babies are helpless at birth, it’s that they’re so huge, at least when we compare them to the size of other apes’ newborns. Fortunately we have all kinds of technology to help us carry them around. But how far back in history were our evolutionary ancestors dealing with these big babies?

  Aradia Wyndham

  March 19, 2015

  Evolution of Babywearing

  adaptation, afarensis, altricial, attachment, austrolopithecus, babywearing, bipedalism, Birth, body hair, breastfeeding, Breastmilk, carrying, chimpanzee, clinging, desilva, dunsworth, energetic costs, energetics of gestation, foot morphology, gorilla, grasping, hominidae, homo, hrdy, human life history, IMMR, infant carrier, Lucy, mothering, neonatal, ontogeny, parenting, precocity, reflexes, selam, taylor, technology

• The Cost of Carrying

  

  This work is part of my project, The Evolution of Babywearing, which explores the evolutionary origins of the infant carrier and how it has shaped humanity as we know it. Many moons ago at a family gathering, a relative was complaining about her baby’s fussing, “He won’t let me put him down and he’s so […]

  Aradia Wyndham

  March 3, 2015

  Evolution of Babywearing

  africanus, altricial, baby, bipedalism, calories, carrying, energetic costs, evolution, exercise, foot morphology, health, in-arms, infant, Lucy, mothering, newborn, parenting, primates, sling, stone tool industry, tool use

• They See Me Riding

  

  Why is it that some mammals can just leave their babies in a den or nest, while others carry theirs around (or have them cling on) through out the day?

  Aradia Wyndham

  March 2, 2015

  Evolution of Babywearing

  altricial, ancestral state, baby sling, babywearing, Beng, biology, bipedalism, bottle feeding, breastfeeding, Breastmilk, Caroline Ross, carrying, chimpanzee, clade, co-adaptations, cooperative breeding, culture, daycare, dens, energetics, eutherian mammals, evolution, human life history, infant carrier, nests, nonnesting, nonoral carriers, parkers, precocious, reproductive cost, reproductive strategies, riders, secondary altricity, technology, triassic period, wall-scheffler