Survival Of The Fattest: The Key To Human Brain Evolution - Hardcover

Cunnane, Stephan Cosgrave

 
9789812561916: Survival Of The Fattest: The Key To Human Brain Evolution
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9812561919 ISBN 13: 9789812561916
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

How did humans evolve larger and more sophisticated brains?In general, evolution 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, 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, succinctly, survival of the fattest.

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Review

This book is full of interesting facts about our brains and about nutrition and brain and body biochemistry.... thought provoking -- European Neurology "European Neurology"

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Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9812561919
ISBN 13 
9789812561916
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
368

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