SynthesisProceedings. Biological sciences2017
Primate energy input and the evolutionary transition to energy-dense diets in humans.
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- Evolutionary History and Functional Divergence of Hydroxycarboxylic Acid Receptors in Primates.Genome biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Relative facial width, and its association with canine size and body mass among chimpanzees and bonobos: Implications for understanding facial width-to-height ratio expression among human populations.American journal of biological anthropology · 2025Article
- Evolution of cortical geometry and its link to function, behaviour and ecology.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Brain size, gut size and cognitive abilities: the energy trade-offs tested in artificial selection experiment.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Balancing costs and benefits in primates: ecological and palaeoanthropological views.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- Seasonal variation in energy balance of wild Japanese macaques (Macaca fucata yakui) in a warm-temperate forest: a preliminary assessment in the coastal forest of Yakushima.Primates; journal of primatology · 2020Article
- Where and what? Frugivory is associated with more efficient foraging in three semi-free ranging primate species.Royal Society open science · 2019Article
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Abstract
Humans and other large-brained hominins have been proposed to increase energy turnover during their evolutionary history. Such increased energy turnover is plausible, given the evolution of energy-rich diets, but requires empirical confirmation. Framing human energetics in a phylogenetic context, our meta-analysis of 17 wild non-human primate species shows that daily metabolizable energy input follows an allometric relationship with body mass where the allometric exponent for mass is 0.75 ± 0.04, close to that reported for daily energy expenditure measured with doubly labelled water in primates. Human populations at subsistence level (
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