re: #86 freetoken

Neat science article of the day:

Energetics and the evolution of human brain size

In other words, we succeeded in conquering the world because we kept both the smart and fat strategies but gave up constant movement and having flocks of offspring.

From that:

Nonetheless, consistent with the existence of energy trade-offs with brain size, we find that the size of brains and adipose depots are negatively correlated in mammals, indicating that encephalization and fat storage are compensatory strategies to buffer against starvation.

For some, encephalization is fat storage!

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