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Big Babies Helped Shape Early Human Societies

A three-month-old baby bonobo plays with its mother at a zoo in Frankfurt in 2008. A newborn ape typically weighs about 3 percent of what its mother weighs, while human babies weigh about 6 percent of their mothers' weight. (AFP/Getty Images)
A three-month-old baby bonobo plays with its mother at a zoo in Frankfurt in 2008. A newborn ape typically weighs about 3 percent of what its mother weighs, while human babies weigh about 6 percent of their mothers' weight. (AFP/Getty Images)

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