Tag: secondary altricity
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Why Are Newborn Humans Useless? |Squished Pt3|
Okay, so newborns are effectively needy hot water bottles. But instead of looking at their helplessness at birth as a negative thing, we should consider the benefits.
Aradia Wyndham
advancement factor, altricity, ardipithecine, Australopithecus afarensis, bipedalism, Birth, brain size, coypu, dear hank and john, desilva, dunsworth, evolution, extrauterine spring, featured, fetal constraints, IMMR, Lucy, maternal, metabolism, natural selection, neonataes, newborns, nine banded armadillo, obstetrical dilemma, oxygen, pelvic width, podcast, Portmann, precocious, sambar deer, secondary altricity, social learning, useless, wild boar -
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
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