Human infants require more care than they should, if we form our expectations based on closely related species (apes, and more generally, Old World simian primates). It has been said that humans are born three months early.
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The Neurobiology of “We”. Relationship is the flow of energy and information between people, essential in our development Via VISÃO\\VI5I0NTHNG, Jocelyn Stoller 
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"...we can learn to be open in an authentic way to others, and to ourselves. The outcome of such an integrative presence is not only a sense of deep well-being and compassion for ourselves and others, but also an opening of the doors of awareness to a sense of the interdependence of everything. ‘We’ are indeed a part of an interconnected whole.” ~Dr. Daniel Siegel
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Great post by Greg Laden on the evolutionary advantages of neotony and delayed developmental sequence in humans. But, as he points out, it's not just that humans have delayed or extended development: we have developmental stages not seen in other animals.
"Years ago, Mel Konner suggested the use of the term “childhood” as the period of development in which humans engage that is absent from the apes.... The word “childhood” existed previously, of course. The term was suggested for use as the technical term referring to the inserted or extended, and evolutionarily modified, extra five years or so of development. Primates have a juvenile stage followed by the transition to sexual maturity, but humans have a pre-juvenile stage as well. This model can be rather clumsy, but suffice it to say that human young are doing something quantitatively and qualitatively different than ape young"