Man - the primacy of fat Bashny.Net

Perhaps this is what makes us lyudmiBonobo, chimpanzees and our other smaller (and almost native) brothers spend most of their lives in trees and under them, picking fruits and succulent leaves. This way of life might seem a paradise already the first ancestors of people forced to continually roam the savannah with its hot climate and rugged terrain. But these harsh conditions created us as a species - intelligent, bipedal, have language, endurance and fat ... primates.





More than three decades of continued study by researchers from the United States, engaged in the exploration and dissection of fresh cadavers bonobos in different zoos around the world. I must say that sometimes these monkeys is quite a human being suffering from obesity, which is particularly common in the content of their captivity. However, this factor did not prevent researchers found highly significant differences in the composition of our body and.

Thus, the weight of their skin is from 10 to 13% by weight of the entire body versus an average of 6% in humans. "Thinning" the skin of our species, according to the authors, could develop together with our wonderful ability to sweat, keeping a comfortable temperature in the heat of the body.

But the most noticeable differences emerged in the calculation of fat content: people, accounting for 36% (women) and 20% (men) of body weight, whereas the female bonobo - only 4%, and males - almost 0%. Obesity, according to scientists, increases stamina early Homo, allowing them to better survive periods of drought and lack of food.

The changes were made and the distribution of muscles: the people most of them weight is shifted to the lower part of the body, close to the buttocks and legs. This is not surprising, given the bipedalism. And all this was long before visible stages of enlargement of the brain. It turns out that obesity - it's very human!

via naked-science.ru/article/sci/cheloveka-sozdal-zhir-ego-zapa