Meaning of altricious | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of altricial.

Examples

“In considering the young we must distinguish between the altricious and precocious species, and remember⟳ that between such extremes every shade of difference exists. The cedar waxwing which is born blind and naked may be taken as a type⟳ of the altricious group.”

“It was apparent even that in some lines of inquiry or of action a child might be altricious and in others precocious. The abilities to read⟳ well and to compute well, to remember⟳ geography and to do carpentry work⟳ do not develop⟳ synchronously.”

“Some birds start⟳ hopping around and looking for food within seconds of hatching. Humans, in stark contrast, are the most altricious species known, and helpless for a very long time after birth. As evolutionary scholars Peter Richerson and Rob⟳ Boyd put⟳ it, “We are the largest brained, slowest developing member of the largest brained, slowest developing mammalian order⟳.””

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