> pause growth and then resume it Which shouldn’t feel so alien to us because human childhoods are a period of much slower growth than you see in other animals

> pause growth and then resume it Which shouldn’t feel so alien to us because human childhoods are a period of much slower growth than you see in other animals. Not a pause but still. IIRC it’s speculated that slowed growth is to give time for the brain to mature and to learn but either way it’s interesting to think about. If we grew the way dogs and cows do we’d be fully grown by around 10 years old.