Tag: gorilla
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Body Hair
Non-human apes don’t need a tool to carry their infants in part because they have body hair for their infants to cling to but it’s more complicated than simply having body hair and a baby that can grasp it.
Aradia Wyndham
afarensis, amaral, apes, arboreal, attachment, Australopithecus, baby feet, baby hands, babywearing, back carry, bipedalism, body hair, chimpanzee, clinging, desilva, dorsal carry, evolution, friction, gibbon, gorilla, grasping, gravity, great apes, hair, hair loss, human, humans, IMMR, infant carrier, infants, invention, Jane Goodall, knuckle walking, Lucy, Mother Nurture, neonates, orangutan, primates, quadrupedal, Ross, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, static friction coefficient, tensile tester, the great denuding, ventral position, wall-scheffler -
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
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