The importance of dietary carbohydrate in human evolution

Quarterly Review of Biology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 251-268

  Hardy, Karen ^a   Brand Miller, Jennie ^b   Brown, Katherine D ^c   Thomas, Mark G ^c   Copeland, Les ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbohydrate; Copy number variation; Diet; Human evolution; Preformed glucose; Salivary amylase genes

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; STARCH;

ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; COOKING; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DIGESTION; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYMOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ORGAN SIZE; PALEOLITHIC DIET; SALIVA;

AMYLASES; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; COOKING; DIET, PALEOLITHIC; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; DIGESTION; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ORGAN SIZE; SALIVA; STARCH;

EID: 84938796782     PISSN: 00335770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/682587     Document Type: Article

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