Metabolic acceleration and the evolution of human brain size and life history

Nature

Volumn 533, Issue , 2016, Pages 390-392

  Pontzer, Herman ^a,b   Brown, Mary H ^c   Raichlen, David A ^d   Dunsworth, Holly ^e   Hare, Brian ^f   Walker, Kara ^f   Luke, Amy ^g   Dugas, Lara R ^g   Durazo Arvizu, Ramon ^g   Schoeller, Dale ^h   Plange Rhule, Jacob ⁱ   Bovet, Pascal ^j,k   Forrester, Terrence E ^l   Lambert, Estelle V ^m   Thompson, Melissa Emery ⁿ   Shumaker, Robert W ^o,p,q   Ross, Stephen R ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b New York Consortium for Evolutionary Primatology   (United States)

^c LINCOLN PARK ZOO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

ⁱ KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^j LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^k MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Seychelles)

^l UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^o INDIANAPOLIS ZOO   (United States)

^p INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANATOMY; BODY SIZE; BRAIN; FAT; GROWTH RATE; HOMINID; LIFE HISTORY; LONGEVITY; METABOLISM; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY FAT; BODY SIZE; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN SIZE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GORILLA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; LIFE HISTORY; LONGEVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORANGUTAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; URINALYSIS; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WATER; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; GORILLA GORILLA; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY;

HOMO; PAN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGING; ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY SIZE; BODY WATER; BRAIN; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO; THINNESS;

EID: 84970028381     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature17654     Document Type: Article

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