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Understanding the metabolic cost of building developing tetrapod brains is critically important to explaining the more than 10‐fold differences in encephalization of adult tetrapods that have emerged during evolution. The exact metabolic costs of developing the variety of tetrapod brains are impossible to determine, but one can compare cerebral artery caliber (internal radius raised to the fourth...