Metabolic costs and evolutionary implications of human brain development

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

Volumn 111, Issue 36, 2014, Pages 13010-13015

  Kuzawa, Christopher W ^a   Chugani, Harry T ^b,c   Grossman, Lawrence I ^c   Lipovich, Leonard ^c   Muzik, Otto ^c   Hof, Patrick R ^d   Wildman, Derek E ^c,e,f   Sherwood, Chet C ^g   Leonard, William R ^a   Lange, Nicholas ^h,i  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^g GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Diabetes; Human evolution; Neuroimaging; Neuronal plasticity

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGING; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; EMBRYOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGING; BASAL METABOLISM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906979427     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1323099111     Document Type: Article

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