ReviewAnnual review of nutrition2010
Evolutionary adaptations to dietary changes.
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105 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 250 citations in OpenAlex.
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- A hierarchy of unhealthy food promotion effects: identifying methodological approaches and knowledge gaps.American journal of public health · 2015Pooled it
- Influence of food patterns on endothelial biomarkers: a systematic review.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2014Pooled it
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- Insights into human adaptation from ancient DNA.Nature genetics · 2026Review
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- Hemipteran insects experience recurrent and synergistic molecular evolution adapting to diet shift.BMC biology · 2025Article
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- Integrated behavioral and metabolically flexible responses of wild orangutans to ecologically driven dietary variation.Science advances · 2025Article
- Recent evolution of the developing human intestine affects metabolic and barrier functions.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Liver ERα mediates sex differences in metabolic pattern changes in response to time-restricted feeding.Life metabolism · 2025Article
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Abstract
Through cultural innovation and changes in habitat and ecology, there have been a number of major dietary shifts in human evolution, including meat eating, cooking, and those associated with plant and animal domestication. The identification of signatures of adaptations to such dietary changes in the genome of extant primates (including humans) may shed light not only on the evolutionary history of our species, but also on the mechanisms that underlie common metabolic diseases in modern human populations. In this review, we provide a brief overview of the major dietary shifts that occurred during hominin evolution, and we discuss the methods and approaches used to identify signals of natural selection in patterns of sequence variation. We then review the results of studies aimed at detecting the genetic loci that played a major role in dietary adaptations and conclude by outlining the potential of future studies in this area.
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