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Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I.

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Childhood as a Solution to Exploit Tensions

Philip B 2020: Why do we as humans have this long period of immaturity? The more I started looking at the evolutionary biology background for this, the more striking it is. We actually have childhood that's twice as long as that of our closest primement relatives. Jim Penzies by the time they're seven, are producing as much food as they're consuming. And even in forage of cultures, humans aren't doing that until at least age 15,. So that's really puzzling. why do we have this very, very long period of childhood?

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