Evolution and helpless infants

Nature/evolution gave them the instinct to nurse. I think that there is leakage of milk by the mother animal enough for the baby animal to sense it but in any event the sucking instinct is so strong that if they get anywhere near the teat they will start nursing.

Ethmer, who gave them the instinct to nurse? And how do they smell the milk through the skin to know to nurse? Most of the time, after birth and after a few nursings, then the milk may “come in” and be so full that the udder will leak. Not before, because there is a waxy plug in the nipple that has to be sucked, or squeezed out. And who put that little detail there?

Ancestral humans, while assuming an erect posture caused the birth canal to reduce in size while, encephalization occured, led to babies being born earlier in development. the baby’s large cranium is nearly too big to fit through the woman’s pelvis. After birth, infants require parental attention. Newborn humans are essentially fetuses for another nine months after birth.

Your right because when animals babys are born most of them all ready know how to walk or crawl and find there mothers by her scent thats breed into them as so as most baby animals are born they can walk or crawl

BUT

humans when first born are only born with one instict and that is to suck other then that,, humans are completely helpless

Because, when God created us he wanted us to learn that we are more than just ourselves. I believe that the relationship between parents and child gives us an example of our dependence upon God, even if we don’t realize how dependent we are

Your premise is wrong. The other animals don’t “know” where to nurse. By instinct they are attracted to the scent of the mother’s milk and once finding the source they have an instinct to suckle. The mother makes her teats available to her offspring and their instinct takes over.

The same applies to primates and humans except that they are more helpless than other animals and have to be cradled in the mother’s arm in order to instinctively start suckling.

Dear warmheart, Human keep their children for many, many years…other mammals eventually turn their backs on their off spring in some a few short months. They reproduce yearly, humans are able to but do not typically produce every year until they are no longer fertile. So if we follow evolution we have matured to this stage and one can only think it is a better way. Sue…good luck

Human babies are more fragile than the infants of many other species, because they can be. Human mothers are intelligent enough to know to help them. We have yet to find any traits or behaviors in humans or animals that could not have easily evolved.

Many social animals display particular affection toward select individuals in the group, and display signs of sorrow when one of those ‘loved ones’ goes missing.

Why would we not call that love?

I don’t know…I guess its just the way we evolved or soemthing but this is a very good question and I have no idea!!!

God created us to Love, animals don’t love they are primarialy instinctive.

The one trait that humans have is a large brain relative to the size of their body. The limiting factor on how large our brain can be is fitting through through the birth canal.

An evolutionary trick we have is that humans are born earlier in their development than other mamals. Most other mamals are born nearly ready to walk. Humans take a year to develop this ability. We are born with our brain in a far earlier state of development than other mamals and after we are born it continues to develop. If our gestation time was 21 months women’s birth canal would have to be so wide that they would not be able to walk. We are basically born prematurely compared to other mamals.