for: imitation - child - mother, social learning, cultural learning - origin, altricial, mother - child relation

• = human being's = altricial nature - is an = evolutionary adaptation
• resulting in exceptional = complex social learning
• tradeoff of helplessness at birth
• is complex social learning
• that enables cumulative cultural evolution

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