UPC: 9789812561916 | Survival of the Fattest: The Key to Human Brain Evolution (Hardcover)
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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.
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