ReviewBioMed research international2013
Why control activity? Evolutionary selection pressures affecting the development of physical activity genetic and biological regulation.
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- The influence of sex on activity in voluntary wheel running, forced treadmill running, and open field testing in mice.Physiological reports · 2025Article
- The influence of sex on activity in voluntary wheel running, forced treadmill running, and open field testing.Research square · 2024Article
- The role of physical activity in the regulation of body weight: The overlooked contribution of light physical activity and sedentary behaviors.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2023Review
- Sex-dependent development of enhanced sympathoexcitation in sedentary versus physically active rats.The Journal of physiology · 2021Article
- Sex/Gender-Specific Imbalance in CVD: Could Physical Activity Help to Improve Clinical Outcome Targeting CVD Molecular Mechanisms in Women?International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- The effect of monoamines reuptake inhibitors on aerobic exercise performance in bank voles from a selection experiment.Current zoology · 2019Article
- Alleles associated with physical activity levels are estimated to be older than anatomically modern humans.PloS one · 2019Article
- Role of Inactivity in Chronic Diseases: Evolutionary Insight and Pathophysiological Mechanisms.Physiological reviews · 2017Review
- Sex-dependent differences in voluntary physical activity.Journal of neuroscience research · 2017Review
- High Fat High Sugar Diet Reduces Voluntary Wheel Running in Mice Independent of Sex Hormone Involvement.Frontiers in physiology · 2017Article
- Somali women's view of physical activity--a focus group study.BMC women's health · 2014Article
- Back pain in Poland and Germany: a survey of prevalence and association with demographic characters.BioMed research international · 2014Article
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Abstract
The literature strongly suggests that daily physical activity is genetically and biologically regulated. Potential identities of the responsible mechanisms are unclear, but little has been written concerning the possible evolutionary selection pressures leading to the development of genetic/biological controls of physical activity. Given the weak relationship between exercise endurance and activity levels and the differential genomic locations associated with the regulation of endurance and activity, it is probable that regulation of endurance and activity evolved separately. This hypothesis paper considers energy expenditures and duration of activity in hunter/gatherers, pretechnology farmers, and modern Western societies and considers the potential of each to selectively influence the development of activity regulation. Food availability is also considered given the known linkage of caloric restriction on physical activity as well as early data relating food oversupply to physical inactivity. Elucidating the selection pressures responsible for the genetic/biological control of activity will allow further consideration of these pressures on activity in today's society, especially the linkages between food and activity. Further, current food abundance is removing the cues for activity that were present for the first 40,000 years of human evolution, and thus future research should investigate the effects of this abundance upon the mechanisms regulating activity.
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