herbw t1_ivdro0p wrote
Reply to comment by Admetus in TIL that most non-human primate infants actively use their hands to help themselves out of the birth canal. Human infants do not, but their grip strength is much higher during the hours immediately after they are born. by afeeney
Considering that brain can use about 20% of both circulation and foods, it's not at all unusual.
Admetus t1_ivdzixu wrote
All thanks to agriculture (or if further back, the hunter-gatherer beginnings of man)
I heard also that two legged and furless results in less consumption of nutrition.
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