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Evolution, in general, 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 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, succintly, survival of the fattest.

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Book category Books in English Medicine Clinical & internal medicine Neurology & clinical neurophysiology

• Full title: Survival Of The Fattest: The Key To Human Brain Evolution
• Author: Stephen C. Cunnane
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9789812561916
• ISBN: 9812561919
• ID: 05068008
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Weight: 672 g
• Dimensions: 157 × 231 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. May 2005

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