Resumen de Secret to long life is knowing how to chill out
Hodson highlights the secret to long life. Humans and its primate kin are weird mammals. They grows slowly, bear few young and live long lives. Now there's an explanation: they simply expend less energy. Herman Pontzer of Hunter College, New York, and colleagues studied zoo animals to compare the average daily energy expenditure of primates with that of other mammals. They found that primates expend 50 per cent less energy than other mammals of equivalent mass during an average day.
