Abstract
As primates, humans differ importantly from the great apes and other species in body, brain, and other life history traits. In these allometric traits, larger species mature later, reproduce more slowly, and live longer compared with smaller species. The mechanisms underlying these relationships remain intriguingly obscure. While hypotheses attributing these relationships to metabolic rates have failed, nonetheless, energetics is likely to play some role in allometric relationships. We explore the novelties of human life histories and examine cell and genomic features of brain development, and the uniquely human APOE allele system.
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