Guts and brains : an integrative approach to the hominin record / Wil Roebroeks -- Notes on the implications of the expensive tissue hypothesis for human biological and social evolution / Leslie C. Aiello -- Energetics and the evolution of brain size in early Homo / William R. Leonard, Marcia L. Robertson and J. Josh Snodgrass -- The evolution of diet, brain and life history among primates and humans / Hillard S. Kaplan [and others] -- Why hominins had big brains / Robin I.M. Dunbar -- Ecological hypotheses for human brain evolution : evidence for skill and learning processes in the ethnographic literature on hunting / Katharine MacDonald -- Haak en steek -- the tool that allowed hominins to colonize the African savanna and to flourish there / R. Dale Guthrie -- Women of the middle latitudes : the earliest peopling of Europe from a female perspective / Margherita Mussi -- The diet of early hominins : some things we need to know before "reading" the menu from the archaeological record / Lewis R. Binford -- Diet shift at the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe? : the stable isotope evidence / Michael P. Richards -- The evolution of the human niche : integrating models with the fossil record / Najma Anwar [and others]
Summary
Why do we have such large and energy-demanding brains?
