World Scientific Publishing Company
Survival of the Fattest: The Key to Human Brain Evolution
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9789812561916
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9789812561916
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$141.14
Survival of the Fattest: The Key to Human Brain Evolution
$141.14
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.
| Author: Stephan Cosgrave Cunnane |
| Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company |
| Publication Date: 38497 |
| Number of Pages: 368 pages |
| Binding: Science |
| ISBN-10: 9812561919 |
| ISBN-13: 9789812561916 |
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