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166: Do Not Enter the Secret Room

Dear Hank & John

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A One Year Old Is Cuter Than a One Day Old

Human babies were designed, over the course of lots of millennia and millions of years of evolution, to be things with large heads. That was the largest head that could fit through the orifice it needed to fit through. They should call us homo large headedess. Ah, but the baby has to come out before it's done cooking in some ways. And also, like, human parents are very good at caring for children. There's an evolutionary pressure toward learned rather than innate skill.

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