Committed to the insurance hypothesis of obesity.
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Can ideas about the regulation of body mass in birds be used to explain the breakdown of regulation associated with obesity and anorexia in humans? There is no evidence to think so. Medicine can always benefit from the application of evolutionary ecology ideas, but we must be prepared to dismiss these ideas when they just do not fit the data.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Behavioral and brain sciences
دوره 40 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017