Metabolic constraint imposes tradeoff between body size and number of brain neurons in human evolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 45, 2012, Pages 18571-18576

  Fonseca Azevedo, Karina ^a   Herculano Houzel, Suzana ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brain metabolism; Encephalization; Expensive tissue hypothesis

Indexed keywords

APE; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOKING; EVOLUTION; FEEDING; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAW FOOD;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

HOMINIDAE; HOMO ERECTUS; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 84868547829     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206390109     Document Type: Article

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