Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) / quote 1 of 91
Why human childhood lasts so long
It’s a question that bothers many evolutionary scientists: How come it takes so long to raise a human child? Aside from perhaps a whale or two, we have the longest childhood on the planet. Where did this decades-long sojourn come from, and why don’t other animals have to go through what we do? Just a couple of delightful things we human parents endure: