Science & Tech
How humans evolved to be ‘energetically unique’
Andrew Yegian and Daniel Lieberman.
Photo by Dylan Goodman
Anne J. Manning
Harvard Staff Writer
November 18, 2024 4 min readMetabolic rates outpaced ‘couch potato’ primates thanks to sweat, says new study
Humans, it turns out, possess much higher metabolic rates than other mammals, including our close relatives...