Evolutionary origins of obesity

Obesity Reviews

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 165-180

  Bellisari, A ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energetics; Hominins; Human evolution; Primates

Indexed keywords

BODY FAT; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EPIDEMIC; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LIPID STORAGE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIMATE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; SATIETY; STARVATION;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; OBESITY;

EID: 38849145658     PISSN: 14677881     EISSN: 1467789X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-789X.2007.00392.x     Document Type: Review

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