Wednesday 20 January 2016

BRAIN

there is a tradeoff between body size and number of neurons. So a primate that eats eight hours per day can afford at most 53 billion neurons, but then its body cannot be any bigger than 25 kilos. To weigh any more than that, it has to give up neurons.So it's either a large body or a large number of neurons. When you eat like a primate, you can't afford both.

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