As noted in this post , it is possible for a food-related trait to evolve to fixation in an entire population in as little as 396 years; not...
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Showing posts with label evolution. Show all posts
We share an ancestor who probably lived no more than 640 years ago
This post has been revised and re-published . The original comments are preserved below. Typically this is done with posts that attract man...
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Certain mental disorders may have evolved as costs of attractive mental traits
bipolar disorder,
cave painting,
costly traits,
evolution,
manic-depressive disorder,
mental health,
personality traits,
schizophrenia,
Zahavian traits
I find costly traits fascinating, even though they pose a serious challenge to the notion that living as we evolved to live is a good thing ...
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Great evolution thinkers you should know about
Darwin,
Dobzhansky,
evolution,
Fisher,
Haldane,
Hamilton,
Kimura,
Maynard Smith,
Mayr,
Price,
research,
Trivers,
Wallace,
Williams,
Wilson,
Wright,
Zahavi
If you follow a paleo diet, you follow a diet that aims to be consistent with evolution. This is a theory that has undergone major changes a...
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Lucy was a vegetarian and sapiens an omnivore: Plant foods as natural supplements
Early hominid ancestors like the Australopithecines (e.g., Lucy ) were likely strict vegetarians. Meat consumption seems to have occurred at...
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Our body’s priority is preventing hypoglycemia, not hyperglycemia
An adult human has about 5 l of blood in circulation. Considering a blood glucose concentration of 100 mg/dl, this translates into a total a...
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Men who are skinny-fat: There are quite a few of them
The graph below (from Wikipedia) plots body fat percentage (BF) against body mass index (BMI) for men. The data is a bit old: 1994. The top-...
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Could we have evolved traits that are detrimental to our survival?
costly traits,
evolution,
genes,
genetics,
omega-6,
omega-6 to omega-3 ratio,
research,
Zahavian traits
Let us assume that we collected data on the presence or absence of a trait (e.g., propensity toward risky behavior) in a population of indi...
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