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#537 Christopher Kuzawa: Developmental Plasticity, Life History, and Epigenetics

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The Cost of the Brain

The cost of the brain is peking out in childhood, and thos when those scynaptic processes are highest. The five year old brain is actually using twice the total energy of the adult brain. And so you can imagine how this is going to have major implications for our life history. This is going to kind of distort the life history because it's going to end up sucking resources away from other other aspects of biology.

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