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The New Metabolism

Origin Stories

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Herman Ponser is an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University. He's a Leakey Foundation grantee who studies human evolution with a focus on how our bodies burn calories. In his book Burn, he says that understanding metabolism is the key to understanding all living things, including humans.

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