In Dr. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy’s talk, she discusses how human infants fall behind other apes in physical development, but human infants excel in areas of monitoring others facial expressions and assessing their intentions from infancy. I find this interesting because in my experience I have only seen human infants compared to other human infants. These comparisons are made through birth weight, ability to hold eye contact, ability to understand facial expression and other factors that have been labeled as typical for human infants and early human development. I think this point is interesting because humans are a very complex and advanced species, and we are capable of very advanced cognitive functions from a very young age. When human infants
