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Why aren’t babies just little adults?

But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

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The Long Childhood of Humans

Long childhood allows for a lot of what is sometimes called cultural transmission. Humans are much more interconnected socially in that way and we rely on each other in order to gain truth. That's why we have laptops and airplanes and all sorts of really sophisticated technologies no other animal species can create.

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