Brains or Brawn: You Can’t Have Both
Brains or Brawn: You Can’t Have Both
Human brains work at 24 watts of power, cost 516 kilocalories per day; caloric intake is limiting for non-human primates; larger primates get more calories per hour, but not fast enough; the upper limit to being a primate; trade-off between body mass and number of brain neurons
Keywords: Foraging, caloric intake, body x brain trade-off
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