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Microevolutionary Hypothesis of the Obesity Epidemic

2023-08-31

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The obesity epidemic represents potentially the largest phenotypic change in Homo sapiens since the origin of the species. Despite obesity’s high heritability, a change in the gene pool has not generally been presumed as a potential cause of the obesity epidemic. Here we advance the hypothesis that a rapid change in the obesogenic gene pool has occurred second to the introduction of modern obstetrics dramatically...

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Literature Corpus work: bdaeca3e-dd32-5b69-8f06-9d738ddc03ae
DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.29.555238

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