Most human traits (e.g., body fat percentage, blood pressure, propensity toward depression) are influenced by our genes; some more than othe...
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Often acquired tastes are acquired genes: Probiotics and prebiotics
Gut flora is found in many areas of our digestive tract, particularly in the colon. Whenever we eat anything we feed the microbes that mak...
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Familial hypercholesteromia: Why rely on cholesterol levels when more direct measures are available?
cholesterol,
familial hypercholesteromia,
Friedewald LDL equation,
genes,
genetics,
HDL,
intima-media thickness,
Iranian LDL equation,
LDL,
plaque
There are two forms of familial hypercholesteromia (FH), namely heterozygous and homozygous FH. In heterozygous FH only one copy of the gene...
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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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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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Applied evolutionary thinking: Darwin meets Washington
Charles Darwin, perhaps one of the greatest scholars of all time, thought about his theory of mutation, inheritance, and selection of biolog...
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Pretty faces are average faces: Genetic diversity and health
Many people think that the prettiest faces are those with very unique features. Generally that is not true. Pretty faces are average faces. ...
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The evolution of costly traits: Competing for women can be unhealthy for men
There are human traits that evolved in spite of being survival handicaps. These counterintuitive traits are often called costly traits, or Z...
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How come evolution hasn’t made us immortal? Death, like sex, helps animal populations avoid extinction
Genes do not evolve, nor do traits that are coded for our genes. We say that they evolve to facilitate discourse, which is alright. Populati...
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