Fatness and fitness: Exposing the logic of evolutionary explanations for obesity

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 283, Issue 1822, 2016, Pages

  Higginson, Andrew D ^a,b   McNamara, John M ^b   Houston, Alasdair I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy balance; Intake regulation; Obesity; Thrifty genotype; Thrifty phenotype

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BODY MASS; ENERGY BALANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FAMINE; FITNESS; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD INTAKE; HISTORICAL TIME (HUMAN HISTORY); MORTALITY; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PREDATION; STARVATION; WEIGHT;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; CATERING SERVICE; DECISION MAKING; EATING; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MARKOV CHAIN; OBESITY; PREDATION; STARVATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DECISION MAKING; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OBESITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; STARVATION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84954441682     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2443     Document Type: Article

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