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Cold adaptation as a life style strategy.

Medical hypotheses - 1 Apr 2003

Green M K

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Humans evolved in Africa, where climate would have required cold adaptation. Modern humans have housing which separates them from the environment. Metabolic disorders are prevalent in populations with excess Western diet and lack of exercise. A thrifty genotype has been proposed as an explanation for susceptibility. An alternative explanation is that cold adaptation is absent. But the human genome is complex, and...

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PMID: 12615519
DOI: 10.1016/s0306-9877(03)00009-4

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