Worldwide Increase of Obesity Is Related to the Reduced Opportunity for Natural Selection

Worldwide rise of obesity may be partly related to the relaxation of natural selection in the last few generations. Accumulation of mutations affecting metabolism towards excessive fat deposition is suggested to be a result of less purging selection. Using the WHO and UN data for 159 countries there...

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Autores principales: Budnik, Alicja, Henneberg, Maciej
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5249151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28107497
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170098

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5249151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28107497
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170098

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