3 Nov 2012

Cooking and brain size

From This Way Up, 1:55 pm on 3 November 2012

Why do animals with huge bodies- even primates like gorillas- have far smaller brains than us humans? The key, suggests Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel and her colleagues at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, is cooking.

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