Evolutionary basis for the human diet: consequences for human health.

Abstract excerpt

The relationship of evolution with diet and environment can provide insights into modern disease. Fossil evidence shows apes, and early human ancestors were fruit eaters living in environments with strongly seasonal climates. Rapid cooling at the end of the Middle Miocene (15-12 Ma: millions of years ago) increased seasonality in Africa and Europe, and ape survival may be linked with a mutation in uric acid...

Topics

• Adaptation, Physiological
• Animals
• Biological Evolution
• Climate
• Diet
• Ecosystem
• Fossils
• Hominidae
• Humans
• Phenotype