Saturday, October 23

Factoid of the day

The human brain is 2 to 3% of body mass, but consumes 25% of the body's energy. This is "metabolically expensive", and technologies like cooking food were important for facilitating the evolution of our large brains.


(From a TED talk: Heribert Watzke: The brain in your gut)

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