#377: Herman Pontzer, PhD – Metabolism, Mitochondria & Evolutionary Biology
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The Pros and Cons of Going Slow
So primates in general have a low metabolism. Compared to our ape relatives we're actually a little bit faster than the others. There are advantages to that there are disadvantages though because if you grow up slowly you take the risk of getting killed before you reproduce at all right. We didn't have a metabolic rate to support these big brains well then we'd be having this conversation over satellite internet connections and complicated technology so it really is kind of an unseen framework that has made us who we are.
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