With which hominid species do we think prolonged infant development and possibly male-female pair-bonding appe?

Modern Humans.
To explore and examine maternal behavior in human mothers at the first postnatal contact with their young, we quantitatively analyzed photographs taken every second during the first 10 minutes of each contact. We recorded and studied this behavior in 12 mothers 1/2 to 13 1/2 hours following delivery, with their normal, full-term infants undressed and placed beside them, and in 9 other mothers during their first three tactile contacts with their premature infants (weighing 1,150 to 1,870 gm) in incubators. An orderly progression of behavior was observed in mothers of full-term infants: the mothers started with fingertip touch on the infants’ extremities and proceeded in 4 to 8 minutes to massaging, encompassing palm contact on the trunk. In the first 3 minutes fingertip contact was 52%, with 28% palm contact. In the last 3 minutes of observation, fingertip contact decreased to 26% and palm contact increased to 62%. An intense interest in eye-to-eye contact was observed at the first contact. Mother-to-infant eye-to-eye contact appears to be an important exchange during the development of affectional ties. Mothers of normal premature infants permitted to touch them in the first 3 to 5 days of life followed a similar sequence, but at a much slower rate. Our results reveal suggestive evidence of species-specific behavior in human mothers at the first contact with their full-term infants and suggest that a re-evaluation is required of the present hospital policies which regulate care of the mother and infant

There is a continuing debate in developmental neuroscience about the importance of activity-dependent processes. The relatively delayed rate of development of the human brain, compared with that of other mammals, might make it more susceptible to the influence of postnatal experience. The human infant is well adapted to capitalize on this opportunity through primitive biases to attend to relevant stimuli in its environment. The infant’s interaction with its environment helps to sculpt inter- and intraregional connections within the cortex, eventually resulting in the highly specialized adult brain.

Researchers propose hypotheses for the occurrence of monogamy as a social system in primates based on the assumption that there are a group of primates, including humans, which live exclusively in “nuclear families” and share a similar set of social behaviors. Examining the primates purported to be “monogamous” reveals that they cover a wide range of grouping types, mating patterns, taxonomic groups, and evolutionary grades. While there are a few primate species that do live in small, two-adult groups and share a similar set of social behaviors, the vast majority of the supposed “monogamous” primates, including humans, do not

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