Lucy And Newborn

The first sentence in “Evolution and the Primitive Brain of a Newborn” chapter about Lucy and when I read this chapter, it was the anniversary of Lucy’s discovery and I found that convenient. In any case, as I read, I noticed how this chapter is talking about how unfinished humans are when we’re born; our brains aren’t even half developed as most other animals are. This fact interested me because I know with dogs and cats it doesn’t take as long as nine months to deliver offspring. Despite us having a longer time to develop, our brains aren’t as developed as creatures with a shorter pregnancy period or at least that’s what I understood from the reading. Curious about other mammal pregnancy periods, I went online to see; the shortest was 13 days (Opossum) and the longest was 640 days (Elephant) Both of those periods are insane to imagine if humans operated that way.

Before reading this chapter, in another one of my classes, we talked about how mothers naturally hold their babies closer to their hearts. My class determined or suggested that the reason behind this action dealt with a hand-domination relationship to where a baby is held. When holding a baby, a
Since the women bear the children, it makes sense for the notion “Natural-born mother” to be used. However, I don’t think it’s all natural; maybe some hormones are involved, but no woman is born to be a mother. Some women or men are good with children and that can make them a good or seemingly “natural-born” parent. With some parents, the way they act is not natural or understandable. There is this TV show, Momsters, it’s about mothers who take extraordinary measures to please and care for their children. In our society, their actions are deemed as idiotic and reckless which only hurt themselves and their children. From the episode I saw, no one died, but the children had to clean up for their mother's