Neuroscientists now say,
our guts shrank
as our brains grew-
in finite-ness of our Energy,
due to our limited potential.
is metabolically capped
2. larger brains accompany
smaller intestines in primates)
of our wetware? A grey area, I guess.
yet devours twenty percent of our energy -at rest)
or honeymoon, we are wedded to this
precious ratio for the next
few billion years it seems...
the harder it ALL becomes to digest.
correct errors such as duplication, repetition
and redundancy.
(Try, try, try again)
The smarter we get,
the harder it becomes to fit in
to our thinking caps
with all these insatiable cravings
to consume (us).
(This poem was inspired by the article "How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains" featured on Quanta Nov. 2015)
Painting by Gustav Wentzel, 'Breakfast II' c. 1885 in [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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