Ninety Percent of Cries Answered in 25 Seconds

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Oct 9, 2026 · 26m

A mother in a hunter-gatherer camp is rarely alone with her baby — and she's still the single largest provider of care. New research on the Mbendjele BaYaka and Agta tracks who actually responds when an infant cries, how fast, and how many people are involved. The answers are strange enough to make you rethink the two options we argue about: mom stays home, or baby goes to daycare all day. This episode works through the attention data, the gradual return to work, and the design question nobody has built — including what the ratio research says about staff turnover, mixed-age groups, and why…