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Metabolic constraint imposes tradeoff between body size and number of brain neurons in human evolution
Despite a general trend for larger mammals to have larger brains, humans are the primates with the largest brain and number of neurons, but not the largest body mass. Why are great apes, the largest primates, not also those endowed with the largest brains? Recently, we showed that the energetic cost...
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National Academy of Sciences
2012
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| Online Access: | https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3494886/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23090991 https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1206390109 |
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