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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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Jersey :
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 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 develo. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 343 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-308) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9812567704 9789812567703 9789812561916 9812561919 9789812563187 9812563180 1281880817 9781281880819 |