Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
Well, when you are that small and new to the world your balance isnt quite where it needs to be. So for a way to get around you crawl
Originally posted by: BrunoPuntzJones
Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
Well, when you are that small and new to the world your balance isnt quite where it needs to be. So for a way to get around you crawl
Almost all other animals that I can think of can walk shortly after being born.
Originally posted by: jtvang125
I can see walking being crucial to survival back then but what about crawling? The only reason I could think of is for muscle development to help prepare the child for walking.
Originally posted by: BrunoPuntzJones
Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
Well, when you are that small and new to the world your balance isnt quite where it needs to be. So for a way to get around you crawl
Almost all other animals that I can think of can walk shortly after being born.
Originally posted by: BrunoPuntzJones
Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
Well, when you are that small and new to the world your balance isnt quite where it needs to be. So for a way to get around you crawl
Almost all other animals that I can think of can walk shortly after being born.
Originally posted by: BrunoPuntzJones
Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
Well, when you are that small and new to the world your balance isnt quite where it needs to be. So for a way to get around you crawl
Almost all other animals that I can think of can walk shortly after being born.
Originally posted by: BrunoPuntzJones
Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
Well, when you are that small and new to the world your balance isnt quite where it needs to be. So for a way to get around you crawl
Almost all other animals that I can think of can walk shortly after being born.
Originally posted by: Mwilding
When discussing evolutionary reasons for being, not everything has a reason unto itself... you have to learn to look at things from a distance. There is no selection pressure that I can divine that makes crawling babies succesful.
Humans are the most intellectually advanced adult beings on the planet. In order to make that possible, our babies are not very advanced at all. Exposure to the world around us while our brain develops helps make us so advanced intellectually - eventually.
Think of a horse. 5 minutes after popping out of mom's uterus, it is running around. It take over a year for a human to gain that mobility. Since humans take great care of their young, they can be born helpless. In the long run, it makes for more advanced adults.
Another consideration is that we have evolved to walk upright. nearly all other 4 limbed animals walk on all fours. It seems logical that an undeveloped uncoordinated baby is going to first move around on all fours as it is much easier than walking.
That's the best I can do to explain in 5 minutes. I may have degree in evolutionary biology, but I graduated in 1991 and smoked a lot of dope in school...
Originally posted by: Sphexi
Our daughter never really crawled, she tried to for about a month, then gave up and turned to scooting around on her behind. She'd literally sit up, then lift with her legs and pull herself forward, over and over, to move around. Then at around 11 months she got sick of that and just started walking, she's 13 months old now and runs all over the place. A lot of people we're talking to who have had kids in the past year or two have said the same thing, no crawling but they do the scooting thing, which is really interesting because we tried to help her learn to crawl, she just didn't want to.