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Briana L. Pobiner

Briana L. Pobiner

Paleoanthropologist

Aug 31, 2026

18:38
So
18:39
that is called the expensive tissue hypothesis.
18:41
And so Leslie Aiello and Peter Wheeler put forth this paper, this and put forth this hypothesis in a paper.
18:48
I think it was in 1995.
18:50
And the idea is that so our brains are really energetically expensive.
18:53
They take up about 2% of our body weight.
18:55
They use 20% of our energy as adults.

7 MINS LATER

25:56
Right.

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