Are we the Unlikely Primate?
I don't want this blog to turn into a series of silly posts about baby, so I'm trying to be measured in my observations.
Like: How has Homo sapiens become a preeminent earthling? Maybe the preeminent earthling?
The chances a woman gets pregnant are pretty slim, since the window of fertilization is small and when she's ovulating. Healthy men have in the neighborhood of 20 million sperm per attempt, so already the chances that each person are who they are are, like, (1/hitting ovulation perfectly)x(1/20,000,000). Which are Lotto jackpot odds.
And then newborn Homo sapiens are on the short list for most vulnerable living thing on earth. Have you see the footage of the sloth slowly trying to cross that highway in Costa Rica or wherever? It makes you start yelling at your computer monitor (or pocket super-computer), "Holy hell, hurry up you little death-wish haver!!"
Newborns are way more vulnerable than that.
I guess communication and newborn care are Homo sapiens' weapons in the fight against the worldly onslaught.
very scary how totally dependent on another human infants are..... and yet the species survived.... it is an amazing thing.... newborn great apes have the ability to cling to their mother... and yet... we survive....
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