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12/13/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Research finds our brains don’t use as much energy as previously believed, when compared to other species

Humans devote a large portion of our daily calorie intake to our brains, more so than other animals. After all, the human brain expends 25 percent of the baseline energy budget despite comprising no more than two percent of human body weight. This is an idea that has long been accepted in scientific circles. Yet […]

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