Survival of the Fattest: The Key to Human Brain Evolution
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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.
Survival of the Fattest: The Key to Human Brain Evolution,Stephen C. Cunnane,World Scientific Publishing Company,9812561919,Brain,Evolution,Life Sciences - Biology - General,Life Sciences - Evolution,Nutrition,Nutritional aspects,Science,Science/Mathematics,Human biology & related topics
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