{"id":84,"date":"2020-04-29T00:23:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T04:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/gregory-connors\/?p=84"},"modified":"2020-04-29T01:07:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T05:07:28","slug":"chapter-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/gregory-connors\/2020\/04\/29\/chapter-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chapter 8: The Paleofantasy Family<\/span><\/p>\n

This chapter is focused on the uniqueness of the human baby and why it is so different than any other species’ young.\u00a0 Our babies are much less independent than any other primate infant and need much more care and coddling from the mother.\u00a0 Dr. Zuk is a strong supporter of the OB theory in that because of our bipedalism and larger brains babies are born prematurely and thus our brains develop largely outside the womb.\u00a0 Zuk holds the view that because of this human beings were the ones who invented the idea of childhood, and in some ways adolescence, as almost all other babies are born able to function, reach sexual maturity, and reproduce much faster than humans.\u00a0 It was interesting to read the Dunsworth 2018\u00a0 article on EGG because in it she explicit quotes Dr. Zuk as a proponent of OB theory in\u00a0Paleofantasy<\/em>, so as I was reading both points of view it was very interesting to see two sources that I was currently reading disagree in such a way.<\/p>\n

Next, the author points out another anomaly with human babies in that usually the baby has multiple caregivers besides its mother.\u00a0 With other primates, it is very rare to see a baby interact with anyone besides its mother.\u00a0 With humans, although they have very strong connections with their mother, they also have other relationships.\u00a0 This is a unique trait to humans and is deemed alloparenting.\u00a0 She hypothesizes that this is the case because it allows human babies to wean off their mother’s milk earlier, and although they still need a lot of care, it’s not all on the mother so she can get pregnant again quicker.\u00a0 This is the reason why we are able to have so many siblings so close in age.\u00a0 The term for this is called cooperative breeding, which is the idea that the whole family helps raise the infant instead of just the mother.\u00a0 An example of another animal that does this is meerkats where the whole troop helps take care of the young as there is only one couple that breeds.<\/p>\n

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Another interesting topic she brings up is the field of evolutionary pediatrics.\u00a0 She uses Dr. James Mckenna’s research from Notre Dame to show that many of the Western practices of childcare is against our nature.\u00a0 He says that children still need to be taken care of the same way they have been for millions of years.\u00a0 This includes almost constant contact with their mother, especially when sleeping as well as tending to them whenever they cry.\u00a0 He believes that babies have evolved to sleep in social environments, so we should adhere to their nature and give them as much attention as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chapter 8: The Paleofantasy Family This chapter is focused on the uniqueness of the human baby and why it is so different than any other species’ young.\u00a0 Our babies are much less independent than any other primate infant and need much more care and coddling from the mother.\u00a0 Dr. Zuk is a strong supporter of … <\/p>\n

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