8 Ways Evolution Has Royally Screwed You Over

6. Babies Are Morons

Out of all of the animals on the planet, humans have the longest childhood.

This is pretty great from the perspective of the child as it means all the more time to ride bikes and eat ice cream, but it's a total chew-on for the parents. The most inconvenient thing about children is that they're total (literally) drooling idiots for the first few years of life, totally dependent on their long-suffering parents for food, shelter and bedtime stories.

Conversely, this has a lot to do with how smart humans have evolved to be, coupled with our insistence on walking around on two legs.

The combination of big brains and wincingly small pelvises means that we have to give birth to our offspring before they're cooked, and our delightful but undeniably useless babies have to continue to develop their brains outside of the womb. This also means that childbirth tends to sting a bit as we attempt to force big baby brains out of very small holes.