A newborn baby cannot walk, feed itself or even lift its head. Compared with most animals, human babies are remarkably helpless. Yet this dependence is not a weakness; it is an evolutionary advantage.

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. Every year as I’m unpacking my grandmother’s nativity set, I hide the ceramic baby in a ...

The advancement of science is a funny thing. We may know a lot about alpaca sex, but when it comes to how human babies are made, there are still gaps in our knowledge. Now, biologists at the Max ...

Cats are intelligent animals, as feline parents can certainly attest to! It’s thought by many experts that a cat’s intelligence is similar to that of a child aged between two and three, and over the ...

Earlier this week, while we were all busy with the (now paused) war in Iran and the (very much ongoing) court battle over soldiers in L.A. streets, my baby started saying my name. It’s a moment every ...

Every year as I’m unpacking my grandmother’s nativity set, I hide the ceramic baby in a drawer. My grandmother installed the baby in the manger on the first day of Advent, but it’s a tradition in this ...