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| Young Chimps (by Delphine Bruyere) |
Ever wonder why we can't swing from trees quite as adeptly as our chimpanzee “cousins”?
Questions like these are what Einstein referred to as “holy curiosity” – a function of the highly-evolved human brain. However, at what cost has this brainpower developed?
Partnering researchers from China and Germany are theorizing that the human brain might have evolved at the expense of human brawn. In other words, “the observed rapid metabolic changes in brain and muscle, together with the unique human cognitive skills and low muscle performance, might reflect parallel mechanisms in human evolution.”
If you can fully understand that last sentence, then your brain is probably one of those highly-evolved ones.
Just don’t try any heavy lifting…
Resources
http://news.yahoo.com/human-muscles-evolved-weakness-order-boost-brains-144125685.html
Copyright May 28, 2014 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
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