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Neoteny in humans is the slowing or delaying of body development, compared to non-human primates, resulting in features such as a large head, a flat face, and relatively short arms. These neotenic changes may have been brought about by sexual selection in human evolution .
Neoteny is not a ubiquitous trait of the human phenotype. Human expression timing, compared to chimpanzee, has a completely different trajectory uncovering that there is no uniform shift in developmental timing. Humans undergo this neotenous shift once sexual maturity is reached.
Desmond Collins, who was an Extension Lecturer of Archaeology at London University, [8] said that the lengthened youth period of humans is part of neoteny. [ 9 ] Physical anthropologist Barry Bogin said that the pattern of children's growth may intentionally increase the duration of their cuteness.
In that view, many human artifacts could be considered subject to sexual selection as part of the extended phenotype, for instance clothing that enhances sexually selected traits. [2] During human evolution, on at least two occasions, hominid brain size increased rapidly over a short period of time followed by a period of stasis.
Moe is related to neoteny and the feeling of "cuteness" a character can evoke. The word moe originated in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Japan and is of uncertain origin, although there are several theories on how it came into use. Moe characters have expanded through Japanese media, and the concept has been commercialised.
Equally, if that is done, the detailed analysis of what neoteny means in humans (as opposed to the history of the main concept) could then be farmed out to a subsidiary article, (Neoteny in humans) and summarised here in a paragraph or two. The coverage of "all other animals" then needs to be extended to describe neoteny's appearance and ...
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According to the concept of physiological prematurity (related to the concept of "neoteny"), humans are animals "born too early". Although the fetus undergoes the maturation of motor coordination and sensory organs in the womb, the human being is, at the moment of birth, comparatively helpless.