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Human childhood is unusually long in the animal kingdom

26 September 2022

“You are weird. Your baby is weird and you were weird as a baby. And after that? You just got weirder. And that is for reasons that include planetary domination,” writes Dr Brenna Hassett (UCL Archaeology) in her book “Growing Up Human: The Evolution of Childhood.”

Read: Wall Street Journal (£)