Why Do Human Children Stay So Small For So Long?

The Conversation, Raw Story: Science
Tue, 12/02/2014 - 1:08pm

Why does it take so long for human children to grow up? A male chimp and male human, for example, both end up with the same body weight but they grow very differently: at year one the human weighs twice that of the chimp but at eight the chimp is twice that of the human.

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