The Key to Human Brain Evolution
Hardback
Publication Date: 25/05/2005
Evolution, in general, 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 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, succintly, survival of the fattest.
- ISBN:
- 9789812561916
- 9789812561916
- Category:
- Human biology
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 25-05-2005
- Publisher:
- World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Country of origin:
- Singapore
- Pages:
- 368
- Dimensions (mm):
- 231x161x25mm
- Weight:
- 0.65kg
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