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The New Metabolism
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Primates Burn 50% of the Calories
Researchers have been measuring energy expenditures in non-human apes. They found that primates burn only 50% of the calories you'd expect for a mammal that size. Primates grow really slowly compared to other mammals, and they age very slowly. That's due to an early evolutionary change to how good with primates to make us slow.
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