Value |
70
%
|
Organism |
Human Homo sapiens |
Reference |
Roth G, Dicke U. Evolution of the brain and intelligence. Trends Cogn Sci. 2005 May9(5):250-7. p.254 box 2PubMed ID15866152
|
Primary Source |
Aiello, L.C. et al. (2001) In defense of the Expensive Tissue Hypothesis. In Evolutionary Anatomy of the Primate Cerebral Cortex (Falk, D. and Gibson, K.R., eds), pp. 57–78, Cambridge University Press |
Comments |
The human brain occupies only 2% of body mass, but consumes
about 20% of total metabolism. However, heart, liver, kidney and the
gastrointestinal tract are equally ‘expensive’. Together with the
brain, they consume about 70% of basal metabolism of the human
body (primary source) |
Entered by |
Uri M |
ID |
106137 |