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Daily energy expenditure through the human life course

Herman Pontzer1,2, Yosuke Yamada3,4, Hiroyuki Sagayama5

  • 1Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. herman.pontzer@duke.edu j.speakman@abdn.ac.uk yyamada831@gmail.com sagayama.hiroyuki.ka@u.tsukuba.ac.jp aluke@luc.edu jennifer.rood@pbrc.edu dschoell@nutrisci.wisc.edu k.westerterp@maastrichtuniversity.nl wwong@bcm.edu.

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