High resting metabolic rate among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists experiencing high pathogen burden.
Michael D GurvenBenjamin C TrumbleJonathan StieglitzGandhi YetishDaniel CummingsAaron D BlackwellBret BeheimHillard S KaplanHerman PontzerPublished in: American journal of physical anthropology (2016)
High pathogen burden may lead to higher metabolic costs, which may be offset by smaller body mass or other energy-sparing mechanisms.