Comment on Eating meat and cooking food is how humans got their big brainsparentComments−stickfigure13yYet elephant brains have half the number of neurons as humans:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_ne...Perhaps the caloric requirements of a brain are driven by the number of moving parts. The article suggested a "calories per neuron" metric.
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Yet elephant brains have half the number of neurons as humans:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_ne...
Perhaps the caloric requirements of a brain are driven by the number of moving parts. The article suggested a "calories per neuron" metric.