Brains really do mean having less brawn

• Autores: Colin Barras
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3168, 2018, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Primate species with larger brains have less muscle mass, supporting a controversial theory that energy-hungry brains grew larger by stealing resources from other tissues. Magdalena Muchlinski at the University of North Texas and her colleagues dissected primates of 10 species that lived in captivity and died of natural causes. They included the Philippine tarsier, which weighs about 130 grams, and the crab-eating macaque, which weighs several kilograms. The team found that primates with larger brain volumes had less muscle mass, relative to their overall body mass