Kuiopean 



KOALA BEAR TOTING HER YOUNG 



At eight months of age this young marsupial is no longer carried in the pouch on the 

 mother's abdomen, and it is able to eat a little of everything that the adults eat. 

 But the mother still carries the baby around and protects it 



the parents among different peoples, and even among different sections of 

 the same population, as the rural and urban in America. 



Infancy in Man^ The length of immaturity and dependency differs 

 among various races of mankind, and among different types of culture. Chil- 

 dren among primitive people run about with little direction or supervision 

 almost as soon as they can walk. In a modern industrial community they are 



^See No. 3, p. 432. 

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