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Comment
. 2017 Jan:40:e121.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X16001461.

Committed to the insurance hypothesis of obesity

George A Lozano  1
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Committed to the insurance hypothesis of obesity

George A Lozano. Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan.

Abstract

Can ideas about the regulation of body mass in birds be used to explain the breakdown of regulation associated with obesity and anorexia in humans? There is no evidence to think so. Medicine can always benefit from the application of evolutionary ecology ideas, but we must be prepared to dismiss these ideas when they just do not fit the data.

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