“Protracted immaturity and dependence on paternal care is not an unfortunate byproduct of our evolution but instead a highly adaptive trait of our species, which has enabled human infants to efficiently organize attention to social agents and learn efficiently from social output
- Quote worthy
- "“Protracted immaturity and dependence on paternal care
- is not an unfortunate byproduct of our evolution
- but instead a highly adaptive trait of our species,
- which has enabled human infants to
- efficiently organize attention to social agents and
- learn efficiently from social output,”
- “The evolutionary goal of altricial species is
- not to become highly competent as quickly as possible
- but rather to excel at learning over time.”
- "“Protracted immaturity and dependence on paternal care
- Authors
- Michael Goldstein,
- Katerina Faust,
- Samantha Carouso-Peck
- Mary R. Elson