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They just can't afford the energy for both a large body and a large number of neurons.
We calculated on the one hand how much energy a primate gets per day from eating raw foods, and on the other hand, how much energy a body of a certain size costs and how much energy a brain of a certain number of neurons costs, and we looked for the combinations of body size and number of brain neurons that a primate could afford if it ate a certain number of hours per day.
So a primate that eats eight hours per day can afford at most 53 billion neurons, but then its body cannot be any bigger than 25 kilos.
When you eat like a primate, you can't afford both.
Gorillas and orangutans, for instance, afford about 30 billion neurons by spending eight and a half hours per day eating, and that seems to be about as much as they can do.
So because of cooking, what once was a major liability, this large, dangerously expensive brain with a lot of neurons, could now become a major asset, now that we could both afford the energy for a lot of neurons and the time to do interesting things with them.
The fruits of their labors would afford them a home, for many the first piece of property that they would ever know, and a community with other first-time African-American home buyers.
When I hear that story, I always imagine the folks from the Great Migration rolling over in their graves, because you can imagine that they didn't sacrifice moving from the South to the North to create a better life for their families, only to see their great-grandchildren return to an agrarian lifestyle, especially in a city where they came with little less than a high school education or even a grammar school education and were able to afford the basic elements of the American dream: steady work and a home that they owned.
My parents couldn't afford physical therapy, so they sent me to dancing school.
And the model of 4G is quite simple: Companies cannot afford to be just innocent bystanders in what's happening around in society.
There are legions of young men who can't afford to get married, because marriage has become a very expensive proposition.
He was arrested, and he was kept in jail on 3,500 dollars bail, an amount that he could not afford to pay.
This dropped the cost of putting objects up there by over a factor of 100, and suddenly we could afford to experiment, to take a little bit of risk, and to realize a lot of innovation.
I do that because I believe that Dorothy, like Pia, deserves the best life chances that we can afford to give her.
Today might be the only time that these two things coincide, such that we can afford the aid that we've always aspired to give.
But what if a country can't afford to pay more because it's maybe too expensive?
Fortunately, we can afford a few failures, because we've certainly had them.
So we only could afford to build a two-block section of what would become a mile-long esplanade, so whatever we built had to be perfect.
We cannot afford to be color blind.
Now in a large manufacturing company, this is a big deal, and they could no longer afford their labor pool.
Those who could afford it more would trade with those who could afford it less.
Twenty or 30 years ago, if a bank in North America lent too much money to some people who couldn't afford to pay it back and the bank went bust, that was bad for the lender and bad for the borrower, but we didn't imagine it would bring the global economic system to its knees for nearly a decade.
And for those who cannot afford even this, we offer them a variety of scholarships.
I spent months in Hollywood learning 3D animation software, and I spend months on each animation, and that's just time that most researchers can't afford.
When Ford famously introduced the $5 day, which was twice the prevailing wage at the time, he didn't just increase the productivity of his factories, he converted exploited autoworkers who were poor into a thriving middle class who could now afford to buy the products that they made.
When restaurants pay restaurant workers enough so that even they can afford to eat in restaurants, that's not bad for the restaurant business.
It's just that that's all that those entrepreneurs' customers can afford.
These are the people who can afford to fly abroad with an airplane for a vacation.
But I truly believe we can't afford to ignore this question anymore.
Laetitia's a young woman from Kenya who at the age of 13 had to drop out of school because her family couldn't afford to pay fees for her.
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