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To emphasise this point: in almost all other animals, a profound level of motor specialisation is present at-birth. Most animals, are eg., born walking. Wherea
by mjburgess 4y ago
To emphasise this point: in almost all other animals, a profound level of motor specialisation is present at-birth. Most animals, are eg., born walking.
Whereas in humans, we are born needing to specialise almost everything during our lifetime -- which has incredibly high costs (ie., many years of being fed without being able to hunt) -- but high rewards: we learn how to conceptualise the world in novel ways, create tools, etc. both largely a product of our ability to specialise our sensory-motor system in response to the actual environment we're in.
There is no reason to suppose that we are analogous to fish in our personalities, but not in everything else -- indeed, there's obvious reasons to suppose the opposite.
- Fricken 4y agoThings we take for granted like swallowing, or sneezing involve a great deal of complex and precise motor coordination that babies can do right from the get go.
- AlmostAnyone 4y agoHuman babies are born significantly earlier in their development due to birth canal width VS head size. Without this limitation, they'd be born after 2 years or even more.
- svnt 4y agoThis is known as the obstetrical dilemma. It is false and being actively dismantled by new data.