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#561 Anna Warrener: The Evolution of the Human Pelvis, Bipedalism, and Childbirth

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Evolutionary Psychology - Human Altriciality

Human infants are born very helpless. They're not capable clinging to mam, so they can't cling anyway. So the idea was that a pregnancy kind of got truncated in order to make sure that the infant could still y pass out of the birth canal. And then there was this period of sort of fedal life during early development. That was what should have happened during pregnancy, but couldn't happen because of the bipeda palvis. The fact that when we're born we only have 30 % of our adult brain size says about the fact that we have such huge adult brains than it says about human altriciality. But i am not up to date n my evolutionary psychology

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