Re: Clark's dilemma

On Nov 11, 11:44 pm, Paul Crowley <dsfdsfd...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How could an A'pith mother, with a one-year-
old child, climb a tree, when neither she
nor her infant had FOUR prehensile limbs?

She gives birth to an infant which has the physical development of a
newborn chimp, not a newborn human, because the infant's brain will
not grow as large as a human's. She isn't constrained by the need to
deliver a baby before its head is grown to big for her hips, as a
human woman is because her infant's brain will continue to grow at the
foetal rate for a further 12 months post partum.

She either holds on to the infant with her
hands, or she holds on to the tree, and
drops the infant.

No, the infant holds on to her, just like all non-human primate
infants do.

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