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  Evolutionary Trajectories Of Complex Traits In European Populations Of Modern Humans

  Researchers tracked genetic changes in Europeans since ancient times, finding increases in height and intelligence but also higher heart disease risk through lower protective HDL cholesterol.

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  Exploring Late Paleolithic And Mesolithic Diet In The Eastern Alpine Region Of Italy Through Multiple Proxies

  Researchers studied ancient teeth and bones from 14,000-year-old hunter-gatherers in Italy to understand how our ancestors' diets changed with environmental shifts.

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  Exploring The Relationship Between Lifestyles, Diets And Genetic Adaptations In Humans

  Scientists studied how major dietary changes over the past 12,000 years may have influenced human genetic evolution, particularly genes involved in processing food and nutrients.

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  Fasting Mimmicking Diet And Aging

  Researchers studied whether a fasting-mimicking diet could improve markers of aging and reduce risk factors for diabetes, cancer, and heart disease.

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  Favorable Ecological Circumstances Promote Life Expectancy In Chimpanzees Similar To That1 Of Human Hunter Gatherers

  Chimpanzees living in ideal conditions can live as long as human hunter-gatherers, suggesting that environment plays a major role in natural lifespan.

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  First Anatomical Network Analysis Of Fore And Hindlimb Musculoskeletal Modularity In Bonobos, Common Chimpanzees, And Humans

  Scientists studied how muscles and bones connect differently in humans compared to our closest primate relatives, revealing how human limbs evolved for specialized walking versus climbing.

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  Fossils From Mille Logya, Afar, Ethiopia, Elucidate The Link Between Pliocene Environmental Changes And Homo Origins

  New fossil discoveries in Ethiopia show how environmental changes around 3 million years ago may have triggered the evolution of early humans from their ape-like ancestors.

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  Global Late Quaternary Megafauna Extinctions Linked To Humans, Not Climate Change

  Research shows that humans, not climate change, were the primary cause of large animal extinctions worldwide over the past 130,000 years.

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  Gut Microbiome Of The Canadian Arctic Inuit

  Researchers found that Inuit people eating traditional high-fat, low-carb diets have gut bacteria surprisingly similar to people eating Western diets, unlike other traditional populations.

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  H NMR Based Metabolomics Reveals The Effect Of Maternal Habitual Dietary Patterns On Human Amniotic Fluid Profile

  Researchers found that a pregnant mother's usual eating patterns directly influence the nutritional composition of amniotic fluid surrounding her developing baby.

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  Hallmarks Of Aging

  Scientists have identified nine key biological processes that drive aging across different species, offering potential targets for interventions to improve healthspan and longevity.

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  Homo Erectus Adapted To Steppe Desert Climate Extremes One Million Years Ago

  New research shows that early human ancestors (Homo erectus) successfully adapted to extreme desert environments one million years ago, demonstrating remarkable flexibility in surviving harsh conditions.

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  How Plants Conquered Land Cell

  Scientists studied how ancient algae evolved to survive on land 500 million years ago, discovering key adaptations that later enabled all plant and animal life on Earth.

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  Human Adaptations To Diet, Subsistence, And Ecoregion Are Due To Subtle Shifts In Allele Frequency

  This study reveals how human genes gradually adapted over thousands of years to help different populations better process specific diets and survive in various climates.

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  Human Occupation Of The North American Colorado Plateau ∼37,000 Years Ago

  Researchers found evidence that humans lived in North America about 37,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought, by studying ancient mammoth bones with signs of butchering.

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  Human Specific Loss Of Olfactory Receptor Genes

  Humans have lost the ability to smell many odors compared to other primates, with 60% of our smell-detecting genes being broken or non-functional.

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  Hunter Gatherers As Models In Public Health

  Researchers studied hunter-gatherer populations to understand why they have excellent heart health and almost no obesity, diabetes, or metabolic diseases compared to modern societies.

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  Identification Of Differences In Human And Great Ape Phytanic Acid Metabolism That Could Influence Gene Expression Profiles And Physiological Functions

  Researchers discovered that great apes naturally produce higher levels of a plant-derived fatty acid called phytanic acid than humans, which may affect metabolism and health.

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  Impact Of Carnivory On Human Development And Evolution Revealed By A New Unifying Model Of Weaning In Mammals

  This study found that eating meat allowed early human ancestors to wean their babies earlier than other primates, leading to faster reproduction and evolutionary advantages.

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  Implications Of Natural Selection In Shaping 99.4 Nonsynonymous DNA Identity Between Humans And Chimpanzees Enlarging Genus Homo

  Scientists found that humans and chimpanzees share 99.4% identical DNA in functionally important genes, suggesting we're so closely related that some propose classifying chimps in the human genus.

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  Influence Of Diet On Leukocyte Telomere Length, Markers Of Inflammation And Oxidative Stress In Individuals With Varied Glucose Tolerance A Chinese Population Study

  This Chinese study found that eating legumes, nuts, fish, and seaweed helps protect telomeres (cellular aging markers), while sugary drinks accelerate telomere shortening in people with varying blood sugar levels.

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  Is The Sardinian Blue Zone The New Shangri La For Mental Health Evidence On Depressive Symptoms And Its Correlates In Late Adult Life Span

  Older adults living in Sardinia's Blue Zone—an area known for exceptional longevity—showed fewer signs of depression, especially when they gardened regularly and felt physically healthy.

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  Isotope Data From Amino Acids Indicate Darwin’s Ground Sloth Was Not An Herbivore

  Scientists discovered that giant ground sloths from the Ice Age weren't vegetarians as previously thought, but likely ate meat by scavenging carcasses.

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  Isotopic Evidence For An Early Shift To C4 Resources By Pliocene Hominins In Chad

  Ancient human ancestors in Africa shifted to eating grasses and plants that use a different type of photosynthesis over 3 million years ago, changing their metabolism and allowing them to survive in new environments.

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  Isotopic Evidence For The Diets Of European Neanderthals And Early Modern Humans

  Neanderthals ate only large animals like mammoths, while early modern humans had more varied diets including fish, which may have contributed to their evolutionary success.

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  Ketones Potential To Achieve Brain Energy Rescue And Sustain Cognitive Health During Ageing

  Research suggests that ketones (molecules produced during fasting or low-carb diets) may help protect brain function and memory as we age by providing an alternative fuel source when the brain struggles to use glucose effectively.

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  Late Bronze Age Cultural Origins Of Dairy Pastoralism In Mongolia

  Researchers discovered that people in Mongolia began consuming dairy products about 3,000 years ago, developing fermented milk beverages to avoid lactose intolerance symptoms.

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  Late Pleistocene Climate Induced Changes In Paleo Vegetat 2021 Quaternary Sc

  Scientists studied how climate changes over 40,000 years affected forest types in Borneo and may have influenced early human population separation and genetic diversity.

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  Late Pleistocene South American Megafaunal Extinctions Associated With Rise Of Fishtail Points And Human Population

  Researchers found evidence that early humans with advanced hunting tools likely caused the extinction of large Ice Age animals in South America around 13,000 years ago.

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  Life Expectancy Inequalities In The Elderly By Socioeconomic Status Evidence From Italy

  Italian researchers found that people with higher socioeconomic status live about 5 years longer after age 60 than those with lower status, even when accounting for other health factors.

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  Mammal Species Occupy Different Climates Following The Expansion Of Human Impacts

  Human activities have forced two-thirds of mammal species to live in different climates than they occupied before the Industrial Revolution, favoring smaller generalist animals over larger specialized ones.

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  Man The Fat Hunter The Demise Of Homo Erectus And The Emergence Of A New Hominin Lineage In The Middle Pleistocene (ca. 400 Kyr) Levant

  Scientists propose that ancient humans evolved to become better hunters when large elephants disappeared, forcing them to hunt smaller animals while maintaining their need for dietary fat.

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  Meat Matters Making The Case For A Valuable Food In A Hostile Environment

  This scientific review argues that meat has been unfairly vilified and remains a valuable, nutrient-dense food despite growing pressure to eliminate it from diets.

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  Metabolic Response To A Ketogenic Breakfast In The Healthy Elderly

  This study examined how well healthy older adults (70-85 years) can use ketones as brain fuel compared to younger people after eating a special high-fat, low-carb breakfast.

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  Metabolic Strategies In Healthcare A New Era

  Modern lifestyle diseases like metabolic syndrome, heart disease, and cancer may all stem from damaged cellular powerhouses (mitochondria), which can be restored through fasting and low-carb diets.

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  Musculoskeletal Study Of Cebocephalic And Cyclopic Lamb Heads Illuminates Links Between Normal And Abnormal Development, Evolution And Human Pathologies

  Researchers studied lamb heads with severe birth defects to understand how normal brain and skull development can go wrong, providing insights into human developmental disorders.

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  Natural Environments, Ancestral Diets, And Microbial Ecology Is There A Modern “paleo Deficit Disorder” Part I

  This research explores whether modern urban living and disconnection from nature creates a "deficit" that harms our mental and physical health compared to our ancestors.

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  Nutrition And Health In Human Evolution–Past To Present

  This research explores how human nutrition has evolved from our hunter-gatherer ancestors to today, revealing that our bodies haven't adapted to modern processed diets and lifestyle changes.

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  Nutrition And Its Role In Human Evolution

  This research explores how our ancestors' diets and environments shaped human genetics over millions of years, influencing our modern metabolism and health.

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  Nutritional Modulation Of The Epigenome And Its Implication For Future Health

  How parents eat before and during pregnancy can change their children's genes through "epigenetic" switches, affecting the child's future risk of diabetes and heart disease.

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  Obesity Reviews 2018 Pontzer Hunter‐gatherers As Models In Public Health

  Scientists studied hunter-gatherer societies to understand why they have excellent heart health and almost no obesity, diabetes, or metabolic diseases compared to modern populations.

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  People Have Shaped Most Of Terrestrial Nature For At Least 12,000 Years

  Research shows that humans have been actively shaping and managing natural environments worldwide for at least 12,000 years, much longer than previously thought.

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  Persistent Epigenetic Differences Associated With Prenatal Exposure To Famine In Humans

  Researchers found that people exposed to severe malnutrition before birth had lasting genetic changes that persisted 60 years later, showing how early nutrition can permanently affect our genes.

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  Plant‐eating Carnivores Multispecies Analysis On Factors Influencing The Frequency Of Plant Occurrence In Obligate Carnivores

  Scientists found that smaller wild cats eat plants more often than larger ones, possibly to help with parasites and digestion efficiency.

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  Preference For The Nearer Of Otherwise Equivalent Navigational Goals Quantifies Behavioral Motivation And Natural Selection

  Researchers discovered that humans naturally prefer choosing closer goals over farther ones when options are equally good, which could help us understand decision-making and behavior change.

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  Prey Size Decline As A Unifying Ecological Selecting Agent In Pleistocene Human Evolution

  Researchers propose that the disappearance of large animals during human prehistory forced our ancestors to adapt by developing bigger brains, better tools, and new hunting strategies.

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  Principal Aspects Regarding The Maintenance Of Mammalian Mitochondrial Genome Integrity

  This research explores how cells maintain the health of mitochondrial DNA - the genetic material in our cellular powerhouses that's crucial for energy production and aging.

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  Prolonging Healthy Aging Longevity Vitamins And Proteins

  A nutrition researcher proposes that certain vitamins and nutrients are essential not just for basic survival, but specifically for healthy aging and preventing age-related diseases.