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

PloS one - 1 Jan 2017

Budnik Alicja, Henneberg Maciej

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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 is a significant correlation (r = 0.60, p<0.01) between an index of the relaxed opportunity for selection...

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PMID: 28107497
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170098
PMCID: PMC5249151

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