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Evolutionary anthropology

proposal that brain enlargement in human evolution was paid for by a reduction in the energetically costly gut.

In evolutionary anthropology, expensive tissue hypothesis refers to proposal that brain enlargement in human evolution was paid for by a reduction in the energetically costly gut. This meaning comes from Aiello (1995) in Current Anthropology.[1]

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Aiello, L. C., & Wheeler, P. (1995). The Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis: The Brain and the Digestive System in Human and Primate Evolution. Current Anthropology, 36(2), 199-221. https://doi.org/10.1086/204350

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