Darwin's passionate environmentalism or the dangerous fallacy of the 'All-sufficiency of natural selection' theory

Nutrition and Health

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 76-90

  Marsh, David ^a  

^a McCarrison Society for Nutrition and Health   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

brain specific nutrients; Conditions of existence; environment; environmentally induced modification; epigenetics; natural selection

Indexed keywords

RODENTIA;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC SELECTION; HISTORY; HUMAN; NUTRITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84864501437     PISSN: 02601060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0260106012437548     Document Type: Article

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