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MyStationIsAbandoned t1_iu8y0ry wrote

man. baby humans are probably the most helpless baby-anything on the planet, huh?

it seems like most baby animals are born with the needed instincts to just survive basic things like not setting itself on fire

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Useful-Feature-0 t1_iu9kzee wrote

There's some truth to this. But the other aspect is that human parents are the most deductive and predictive parents on the planet, and all that intellect leads to extreme vigilence - which is good, because we accept 0 offspring loss.

If human babies were less protected after weaning (left alone for hour stretches, able to explore dangerous things) -> most would still survive.

We just don't accept the most model lol

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