The aorta in humans and African great apes, and cardiac output and metabolic levels in human evolution

Abstract Humans have a larger energy budget than great apes, allowing the combination of the metabolically expensive traits that define our life history. This budget is ultimately related to the cardiac output, the product of the blood pumped from the ventricle and the number of heart beats per minu...

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Main Authors: Luis Ríos, Meg M. Sleeper, Marietta D. Danforth, Hayley Weston Murphy, Ilana Kutinsky, Antonio Rosas, Markus Bastir, José Gómez-Cambronero, Ricardo Sanjurjo, Laurence Campens, Oliver Rider, Francisco Pastor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-04-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33675-1