The brain-testicle metabolic trade-off

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Because both neural tissue and testicular tissue are metabolically expensive, males face an evolutionary budget: invest more in one and you get less of the other. Species that compete through sperm volume grew large testes; species that competed through strategy grew large brains. Human males split the difference toward cognition.

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