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Environmental selection during the last ice age on the mother-to-infant transmission of vitamin D and fatty acids through breast milk.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 8 May 2018
Hlusko Leslea J, Carlson Joshua P, Chaplin George, Elias Scott A, Hoffecker John F, Huffman Michaela, Jablonski Nina G, Monson Tesla A, O'Rourke Dennis H, Pilloud Marin A, Scott G Richard
Abstract excerpt
Because of the ubiquitous adaptability of our material culture, some human populations have occupied extreme environments that intensified selection on existing genomic variation. By 32,000 years ago, people were living in Arctic Beringia, and during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; 28,000-18,000 y ago), they likely persisted in the Beringian refugium. Such high latitudes provide only very low levels of UV...
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