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July 1, 2009
Fact of the day
The brain is a very expensive organ in metabolic terms. Each unit of brain tissue requires over 22 times the amount of metabolic energy as an equivalent unit of muscle tissue.Brains and guts in human evolution: The Expensive Tissue Hypothesis*
Posted by OneEyedMan at July 1, 2009 2:25 PM
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