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Although humans have much bigger brains relative to body weight than do other primates, the total resting energy require
Although humans have much bigger brains relative to body weight than do other primates, the total resting energy require
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2011-01-17
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Although humans have much bigger brains relative to body weight than do
other primates, the total resting energy requirements of the human body are no
greater than those of any other mammal of the same size, implying that we use
Line a higher share of our daily energy budget to feed our voracious brains. How did
(5) such an energetically costly brain evolve?
One theory holds that bipedalism enabled hominids to cool their cranial
blood, thereby freeing the heat-sensitive brain of the temperature constraints
that had kept its size in check. But brain expansion almost certainly could not
have occurred until hominids adopted a diet sufficiently rich in calories and
(10) nutrients to meet the associated costs. Across all primates, species with bigger
brains dine on richer foods, and humans are the extreme example of this
correlation, boasting the largest relative brain size and the choicest diet.
Animal foods are far denser in calories and nutrients than most plant foods, and
so it stands to reason that for early Homo, acquiring more gray matter meant
(15) seeking out more of the energy-dense fare.
Fossils, too, indicate that improvements to dietary quality accompanied
evolutionary brain growth. The later, robust proto-humans-a dead-end branch
of the human family tree that lived alongside members of our own genus-had
heavily built mandibles and huge, thickly enameled molar teeth built for
(20) processing tough, low-quality plant foods, while early members of the genus
Hondo, which descended from the gracile proto-humans, had much more
delicate jaws and, smaller molars, despite being far larger in terms of overall
body size than their predecessors.
Environmental change appears to have set the stage for this evolutionary
(25) change when the continued desiccation of the African landscape limited the
amount and variety of edible plant foods available to hominids. Thus we often
see an increase in animal bones at hominid sites during this period, along with
evidence that these beasts were butchered using stone tools. While the robust
proto-humans coped with this problem morphologically, evolving anatomical
(30) specializations that enabled them to subsist on more widely available, difficult-
to-chew foods, Homo took a different path. As it turns out, the spread of
grasslands also led to an increase in the relative abundance of grazing mammals
such as antelope and gazelle, creating opportunities for hominids capable of
exploiting them. Homo developed the first hunting-and-gathering economy in
(35) which game animals became a significant part of the diet and resources were
shared among members of the foraging groups.
These changes in diet and foraging behavior did not turn our ancestors into
strict carnivores, but the addition of modest amounts of animal foods to the
menu, combined with the sharing of resources that is typical of hunter-gatherer
(40) groups, significantly increased the quality and stability of hominid diets, and
after the initial spurt in brain growth, diet and brain expansion probably
interacted synergistically: bigger brains produced more complex social
behavior, which led to further shifts in foraging tactics and improved diet,
which in turn fostered additional brain evolution.
The author provides information that would answer which of the following questions’? Ⅰ. What eventually led to the extinction of the robust proto-humans? Ⅱ. What were the causes of the desiccation of the African landscape? Ⅲ. What caused the initial spurt in Homo’s brain growth?
选项
A、Ⅰ only
B、Ⅲ only
C、Ⅰ and Ⅱ only
D、Ⅱ and Ⅲ only
E、Ⅰ, Ⅱ, and Ⅲ
答案
B
解析
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