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Survival of the Fattest: The Key to Human Brain Evolution Book
How did humans evolve larger and more sophisticated brains? In general, evolution depends on a special combination of circumstances: part genetics, part time, and part environment. In the case of human brain evolution, the main environmental influence was adaptation to a ?shore-based? diet, which provided the world?s richest source of nutrition, as well as a sedentary lifestyle that promoted fat deposition. Such a diet included shellfish, fish, marsh plants, frogs, bird?s eggs, etc. Humans and, and more importantly, hominid babies started to get fat, a crucial distinction that led to the development of larger brains and to the evolution of modern humans. A larger brain is expensive to maintain and this increasing demand for energy results in, succinctly, survival of the fattest.Read More
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- 9812561919
- 9789812561916
- Stephen C. Cunnane
- 1 May 2005
- World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Hardcover (Book)
- 368
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