Human Children Grow Up So Slowly Due to Large Brains, Study Finds

Why children grow at the pace of reptiles rather than mammals.

In comparison to many of its closest relatives, the human child takes a long time to grow up and require a correspondingly high degree of parental investment.

Human infants are more like reptiles than mammals in the amount of time it takes for them...

Dr Jeremy Dean is a psychologist and author of PsyBlog. His latest book is
"Making Habits, Breaking Habits: How to Make Changes That Stick"

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