Why Do Humans Grow Old So Slowly Compared to Other Animals | History for Sleep

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• BE

  @BeatlesBowieKrimson · 8 months ago · pinned

  This is a good one. And thank you for no background music!

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• HA

  @harrisonbaker8372 · 7 months ago

  This videos represent its self in the first hour it explain everything what the second hour for.

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• MA

  @madjames1134 · 7 months ago

  Our brains never truly age. Puppies, for example, are curious and eager to learn new things, but once they become adult dogs, they stick to their established routines and can get sick if they need to change. They are almost unable to learn new abilities, and they never exploit new things on their own. <br><br>Humans, on other hand, are always exploring and always learning and creating new things. We travel for fun (a completely alien concept for any other adult animal), and are always making improvements to our homes. <br><br>Thanks to our neotenized brain, we are able to develop science: formalized curiosity.

• FR

  @fritzgcw · 8 months ago

  I enjoy this video clip very much, with a slice of cut in biology, social influence, as well as other intellectual aspects to form a full seniority sense, I am 66 from Taipei,the 101 building hometown.

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• SO

  @soothingunboxing7129 · 7 months ago

  Oldest chimpanzee is 84 yrs old. Not that different from humans.

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• ME

  @menalgharbwalsharq648 · 7 months ago (edited)

  Chimps give birth to their first offspring between 12 to 15 yo. Their average lifespan is around 30-40 years in the wild which is very close to what we consider to be the lifespan to humans up until the early middle age.<br>If not for early modern humans societal structures and customs (and it heavily depend on what culture we speak about) Humans female can and did, and sometimes still do, give birth around that age. Many girls get their first periods very early, especially in warmer climates.<br>Humans females often get many many children in many contexts, often in places that are poor or undevelopped, which can totally happen inside of what we consider a modernized country. if anything, humans can reproduce more because our brainpower allow us to make more children survive harsh conditions, and get food easier through agriculture (but even hunting and gathering which we are more efficient at) which make women healthier and more prone to fertility.<br>So we totally fit the schedule of &quot;reproduce fast and in number&quot; this is why we today, have a number of individuals completely unmatched for any species of our size in the animal kingdom, and keep growing.<br><br>There isn&apos;t any ape or ape sized animal, taken all together, that have 8 billion specimens on earth.

• CH

  @chopsyoutube · 7 months ago

  Plenty of other animals have much longer lifespan than we do

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• AM

  @amandamatheny3675 · 7 months ago

  It might be interesting to do a comparative video essay about the lifespan of humans as compared with those of elephants, certain species of tortoises, blue whales, African gray parrots, and other animals that have a comparable or potentially even longer lifespan than we do. It&apos;s interesting because even many animals that have the same or longer lifespan still developed faster than we do. Take a baby elephant for example. Despite its size even as a newborn, it can still walk very quickly while a human baby still can&apos;t even lift a head.

• AM

  @amandamatheny3675 · 7 months ago

  that&apos;s funny. You mentioned the thing about elephants, whales, and some birds after I posted my comment about the video essay thing.

• NI

  @NinoBangsareja · 6 months ago

  What about an elephant? They sexually mature after 14-15 years old, considered old after 40&apos;s. Pregnancy lasts for 48 months

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• SI

  @SiNFPVGUAM · 7 months ago

  People age differently aswell. Lifestyle makes a difference.

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  @amandamatheny3675 · 7 months ago

  if I had lived 100,000 years ago, I&apos;d have died at the age of 24 due to appendicitis. They had no way of doing anything about that back then.

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