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The New Metabolism

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Orangutans Have Slow Metabolic, Right?

We're burning 20% more energy every day than chimps have been opened. Orangutans are the sloths of the ape family tree, and that makes sense because they have these slow life histories. So metabolism is sort of this, again, it's those tectonic plates underneath everything you don't notice them,. It's shifting over evolutionary time and making what you think is normal, making that possible.

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