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This should be higher up. Humans split from primates (including chimpanzees) roughly 5 million years ago. Early hominids only evolved the ability to store large
by sigmoid10 2y ago
This should be higher up. Humans split from primates (including chimpanzees) roughly 5 million years ago. Early hominids only evolved the ability to store large amounts of fat and fast for extended periods of time in the Pleistocene, less than 2 million years ago. Any study done on calorie restriction using monkeys has a serious caveat. Mice offer a much better starting point for comparing metabolic activity.
- gweinberg 2y agoYou're kidding, right? I can see saying neither one tells you much about human beings, but saying monkey studies aren't relevant to human but mouse studies are just sounds bizarre.
- tpoacher 2y ago"All models are wrong, but some are useful." ~ George Box
- meowkit 2y agoWhen you frame it like that of course it sounds bizarre. You just ignored the context of ketogenic metabolism being more similar in humans and mice than humans and chimpanzees.
- pessimizer 2y agoIf you're specifically studying something that is a stark difference between other monkeys and apes on one side and humans on the other, studying monkeys and apes is obviously not a smart thing to do.
- sebastiennight 2y agoA little typo: I think you meant to say humans split from *other apes and monkeys, not "primates". Humans are part of the Primate order[0], as well as other great apes like gorillas, and chimpanzees too. We (the Homo genus) did split from the Pan genus (chimpanzees & bonobos) 5 million years ago. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate
- sigmoid10 2y agoYes, it should've been "from other (modern) primates"
- tasuki 2y ago> This should be higher up. As of right now, it's as high as could possibly be. Please don't suppose comments stay wherever they were when you wrote your comment. It looks silly. (Other than that, reasonable observations - thank you!)