Metabolism/Bibliography

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Overview

• Interactive tutorial for carbohydrate metabolism
• Nutrition tutorials
• Lipid metabolism
• Bone metabolism

Journal articles

• Elliot, M.G. & B.J. Crespi (2008), "Placental invasiveness and brain-body allometry in eutherian mammals", Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21 (6): 1763-1778, DOI:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01590.x ^[e]
• Aiello, L.C. & P. Wheeler (1995), "The Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis: the Brain and the Digestive System in Human and Primate Evolution", Current Anthropology 36 (2): 199-221, DOI:10.1086/204350 ^[e]

Proposed that the energetic costs of the resting metabolism of different organs within the body have to be balanced. Specifically, such a trade-off is hypothesized to have governed the increasing brain size during primate and human evolution, in concert with a decrease in the amount of digestive tissue. For a critique, see Hladik et al. (1999).