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Metabolic costs and evolutionary implications of human brain development.
Paper summary
Combines brain glucose-use estimates with body-growth data across development. The study finds high childhood brain metabolic demand and examines its relationship to slow body growth and human developmental evolution.
Relevance to the project
Supports separating neural computation and developmental costs in a future modeled energy budget. It offers biological context rather than a conversion factor for the current ledger.
Glucose use and total energy expenditure are not interchangeable measurements.
Source record
- Reference ID
- pmc-pmc4246958
- Archived version
- Published PNAS PDF publicly hosted in an independent research archive
- Summary provenance
- reference-library/papers/pmc-pmc4246958/metadata.json · summary
- Review status
- initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
- Reading scope
- Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.