Anthropologists from the Northwestern University (Illinois, USA) have found an explanation for why people in childhood grow so slowly compared with other mammals.
It turns out that the rapid growth of the brain hinders, the growth of which spent the bulk of the energy. Thus, it became clear that mammals grow faster, become larger than the people in the same age. The human brain requires a lot of energy on the formation, at the time when the energy goes into the animal growth. Specialists also found that girls mature earlier than boys, the girls finally have the brain is formed by age 18, and young people to only 26.
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