A Stone Age diet “is the one and only diet that ideally fits our genetic makeup,” writes Loren Cordain, an evolutionary nutritionist at Colorado State University, in his book The Paleo Diet ...

Feb. 10, 2025 — Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and ...

Experimental evolution is the use of laboratory or controlled field manipulations to investigate evolutionary processes. It usually makes use of organisms with rapid generation times and small ...

minor, highlighting their evolutionary adaptations to the environmental stresses prevailing in biocrusts. Genetic studies of Chinese individuals have been performed, but mostly with short read ...

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