From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 19:56:52 MDT
On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 09:11:39PM -0400, gts wrote:
> I don't know how much a typical animal brain weighs, but I did some quick
Human brain is about 3 pounds, apes should be a third of that, go down hill
from there... don't know about cows.
> a typical animal brain weighs roughly a pound or two, a brain a day is all
> our paleolithic ancestors needed to prevent scurvy. This of course gives new
That seems like a lot to me, actually. The right fruits and veggies would
have been much better sources, I think. Primates probably lost vitamin C
production because it was so easy to get from the local plants.
-xx- Damien X-)
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