Why are human babies so helpless?

[Xanikk999]

I never understood this myself.

Any other mammal excluding marsupials can walk when they are born. A human baby can barely move its body at all, other then its arms or legs.

Why is it that human babies are so ugly and so friggin helpless. I dont know of many other animals that are so useless when they are babies.

Hell some babies cant even cry. The human race is the weakest animal in its infancy.

 

[bathsheba666]

This is the price of our intelligence.

The brain cannot develop to its full potential within the womb, so it has to happen outside.

 

[Riesstiu IV]

Not true. Buy this film this DVD documentary and it will prove how human babies are in fact geniuses. Make sure to pay full price for the uncut version. It is so worth it!

 

[Xanikk999]

Not true. Buy this film this DVD documentary and it will prove how human babies are in fact geniuses. Make sure to pay full price for the uncut version. It is so worth it!

Sounds like one of those typical bad idea crappy films....

 

[skadistic]

Panda bear babies are worthless as are most bear cubs. Liemers (sp?) and most simiens are the same as humans.

 

[Xanikk999]

Those arent even babies! They look like 4-6 year olds in diapers....

 

[Riesstiu IV]

Sounds like one of those typical bad idea crappy films....

You truly are the Sherlock Holmes of our ages. What gave it away? The 1.9 rating, the overwhelmingly negative reviews, or the fact it’s a sequel to an already bad movie.

 

[Godwynn]

Why can kittens come out fighting and humans just cry?

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Because in order to be bipedal (and thus have hands as useful as ours are, etc) and have big brains (which we need for our intelligence) and still be able to squeeze the child out requires a lot of compromises. Thus the child has to be somewhat scaled down and thus less able to fend for themselves.

 

[Tycoon101]

Why can kittens come out fighting and humans just cry?

Cyborg babies are the way of the future! They are above humans, and capable of amazing feats at any age.

Just send your baby to me in an air-tightbox with 50,000$ in 20 dollar bills, and I'll be happy to cyborgarise your baby.



But really, it IS the fact that our intelligence is so great.

 

[Godwynn]

Cyborg babies are the way of the future! They are above humans, and capable of amazing feats at any age.

Just send your baby to me in an air-tightbox with 50,000$ in 20 dollar bills, and I'll be happy to cyborgarise your baby.



But really, it IS the fact that our intelligence is so great.

Meh, I figure if we are so smart we would learn how to fight back.

 

[Bluemofia]

Well, human babies are not the most helpless of creatures. Marsupial babies are.

 

[Red Stranger]

Because human adults are so helpful

 

[Raisin Bran]

baby birds ressemble human babies.

They have to be fed during a certain period of time and cant walk nor fly when they are born.

I don't know for sure but if you take the birds lifespan vs the time it takes a baby bird to be fully independant, with all proportions correct it seems like the same time for a human baby to be independent.

 

[FredLC]

Well, our balance as bipedals is too delicate, with just two points of support, and can't be finished within womb. we learn to balance ourselves up through experience (little "stones" within our ears that allow us to perceive our body leaning - just forgot how they are called). As we could not stand at birth, there would be no point to strong legs, since we would not be able to walk or fight anyway - hence evolutionary adaptations rendered us helpless as infants until we can develop the necessary skills, using the time to finish up the building of our muscles, vision and brain.

Actually, many people suggests that to balance out such helplessness, babies developed big, expressive eyes and cativating smilies, in order to encourage surroundind adults to defend them, until they can do that task on their own. A trick, BTW, specially effective on females.

Regards .

 

[Eli]

Because in order to be bipedal (and thus have hands as useful as ours are, etc)

Why is that? Most of the time we dont walk when we use our hands. Why cant we be quadrapedal(or whatever) and still have useful hands?

 

[C~G]

Actuallt, may people suggests that to balance out such helplessness, babies developed big, expressive eyes and cativating smilies, in order to encourage surroundind adults to defend them, until they can do that task on their own. A trick, BTW, specially effective on females.

Indeed it is probably so.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Because to have hands that are capable of being used to walk on requires that they be structured in a way not conducive to manipulation. In other words, they cannot be delicate enough for flexibility if they are strong enough to support our weight.

 

[Gogf]

People human adults care for their babies. Unlike some species where the species survives by producing massive numbers of babies and then sending them out into the wild, human beings create one child and then protect and nurture it.

 

[carlosMM]

I never understood this myself.

Any other mammal excluding marsupials can walk when they are born. A human baby can barely move its body at all, other then its arms or legs.

mice
rats
etc.
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No, you are making an assumption here that is simly false: just because many animals bring forth relatively large offsprings that are capable of relatively rapid locomotion ASAP doesn't meant that this is true for all but humans! Baby polar bears are extremely helpless, too, btw.

Why is it that human babies are so ugly

born half-done,k whaddaya 'xpect?

and so friggin helpless.

born half-done again.....

I dont know of many other animals that are so useless when they are babies.

No other animal brings forth young with such a huge head - which, after all, has to fit into the mother, and out of her.

Hell some babies cant even cry. The human race is the weakest animal in its infancy.

Yeah, but Mom and Dad and their rocks/spears/arrows/machine guns are extremely tough to tackle