Metabolic Acceleration and the Evolution of Human Brain Size and Life History

Pontzer, H., Brown, M. H., Raichlen, D. A., Dunsworth, H., Hare, B., Walker, K., Luke, A., et al. (2016). Metabolic Acceleration and the Evolution of Human Brain Size and Life History. Nature, 390-392.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2016

DOI

10.1038/nature17654

Link

https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17654

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• Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis
  • … in some fish, while other phylogenetically controlled analyses found no such relation in particular primate clades or across a broad mammalian sample. Direct measurements also indicate that humans evolved greater total and basal energy expenditure than other apes, weakening a strict metabolic-stasis premise.

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