Primates
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If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as
primates
in the arboreal forest.
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And so, my fellow primates, let us embrace this gift from evolution and play together, as we rediscover creativity, fellowship and wonder.
If we look across many, many different species of animals, not just us primates, but also including other mammals, birds, even marsupials like kangaroos and wombats, it turns out that there's a relationship between how long a childhood a species has and how big their brains are compared to their bodies and how smart and flexible they are.
To put that number into perspective, here's a graph comparing the 40,000 species of spiders to the 400 species of
primates.
There are two orders of magnitude more spiders than
primates.
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