The youngest chimpanzees are the biggest risk-takers. Would humans show the same pattern if adults weren’t keeping such a close watch on little kids?
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A paradigm shift toward more social support is in order. It may sound countercultural, but really it’s a return to how people have raised children for thousands of years.
Human beings evolved to nurture – and that drive can extend to children who aren’t your own and even to members of other species.
Worker naked mole-rats take care of their colony’s young even though they aren’t the pups’ actual parents. New research suggests the queen gets them ready via hormones in her poop.
