Big brains explained

Richard Potts ()
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Richard Potts: Richard Potts is in the Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 20560, USA.

Nature, 2011, vol. 480, issue 7375, 43-44

Abstract: The expensive-tissue hypothesis proposes that brain enlargement during human evolution was offset by a reduced gut size. The finding that the typical trade-off in mammals is between brain size and fat reserves suggests otherwise. See Letter p.91

Date: 2011
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