Encephalization, expensive tissues, and energetics: An examination of the relative costs of brain size in strepsirrhines

American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Nancy L Barrickman, Maggie J Lin

Abstract

The evolution of encephalization requires that energetic challenges be met. Several hypotheses, such as the maternal energy and expensive tissue hypotheses, have been proposed to explain how some species are able to provide adequate energetic resources for large brains. The former incorporates maternal investment strategies, such as extended life history and elevated resting metabolic rate, which contribute to the growth of a large brain. The latter incorporates the reduction of gut size, which increases available energy for the maintenance of adult brain size. This study examines a sample of strepsirrhines, testing the hypothesis that encephalized species utilize some combination of the above-mentioned strategies. Infants and juveniles from three species at the Duke Lemur Center (DLC) were measured periodically to arrive at head and body growth trajectories. These data were used to determine the energetic tradeoff among the offspring. The examination of gestation length, weaning age, intestinal size and resting metabolic rate was used to assess adult brain maintenance and maternal energetic contribution. The results reveal that Daubentonia, the most encephalized and thus human-like of the lemurs, does not experience an energet...Continue Reading

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