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Hair for brain trade-off, a metabolic bypass for encephalization
Hair loss in humans is perplexing and raises many hypothetical explanations. This paper suggests that hair loss in humans is metabolically related to encephalization; and that hair covered hominids would have been unable to evolve large brains because of a dietary restriction of several amino acids...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2014
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4190188/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25332862 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-562 |