Survival of the fattest: fat babies were the key to evolution of the large human brain - PubMed

In the past 2 million years, the hominid lineage leading to modern humans evolved significantly larger and more sophisticated brains than other primates. We propose that the modern human brain was a product of having first evolved fat babies. Hence, the fattest (infants) became, mentally, the fittes …分類：pmid:14527626, doi:10.1016/s1095-6433(03)00048-5, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Review, Stephen C Cunnane, Michael A Crawford, Adipose Tissue / physiology*, Animals, Biological Evolution*, Body Weight*, Brain / physiology*, Hominidae / physiology*, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, PubMed Abstract, NIH, NLM, NCBI, National Institutes of Health, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE...