When:
Monday, September 26, 2016
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
Where: 1810 Hinman Avenue, 104, 1810 Hinman Avenue , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Nancy Hickey
(847) 467-1507
Group: Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Herman Pontzer, Hunter College - Calories and Consequences: Metabolic Evolution in Humans and Other Primates
Humans have the largest brains, most babies, longest lives, and highest activity levels of any living ape. This adaptive suite of energetically costly traits is at the core of humans' evolutionary departure from the other hominoids and our ecological success as a species. In this talk, we investigate the evolutionary changes in energy expenditure and physiology that made these energetically costly traits possible. Recent measurements of daily energy expenditure in humans, apes, and other primates indicate that metabolic rates are less flexible within species and more variable among species than previously thought. We will discuss these data with respect to primate and human evolution, and public health and obesity.
Co-sponsored by Program in Biological Sciences