Bipedalism, Childhood, and Ritualisation of the Adipose Female Breast: A Hominin Model Scenario

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In this paper, the term childhood denotes the ontogenetic developmental stage of weaned mammal infants who are still helpless and need to be nurtured and protected for survival. Human infants have a pronounced childhood phase in contrast to great apes. For a hominin model scenario proposed here, it will be argued that upright bipedal locomotion facilitated early weaning and, as a consequence, the emergence of chil...

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• Acclimatization
• Adaptation, Physiological
• Child
• Child Development
• Energy Metabolism
• Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
• Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
• Sexual function and dysfunction studies

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bdca0551-161d-5a7e-a711-439e64c74e60

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10.20944/preprints202505.0237.v8