A multinational team of researchers led by Dr Philipp Khaitovich from Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has suggested that metabolic roles of human brain and brawn are intertwined. Human muscular system. Dr Khaitovich and his colleagues investigated the evolution of metabolites – small molecules like sugars, vitamins, amino acids and neurotransmitters that represent key elements of human physiological functions. “Metabolites...
