Survival Of The Fattest : the Key To Human Brain Evolution.
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 provi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
World Scientific,
2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 worlds richest source of nutrition, as well as a sedentary lifestyle that promoted fat deposition. Such a diet included shellfish, fish, marsh plants, frogs, birds eggs, etc. Humans and, and more importantly, hominid babies started to get fat, a crucial distinction that led to the develo. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (363 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789812567703 9812567704 1281880817 9781281880819 9786611880811 661188081X |