In simple terms, many aspects of our modern environment and lifestyle, including diet, exercise, exposure to chemicals, hygienic practices and circumstances, and a variety of other elements, are mismatched to our bodies' evolutionary state.
Picture the pain wiring of the nervous system as an alarm, the body's evolutionary warning system that protects it from tissue injury or disease.
Over 5 decades, the Oakland, California, native has penned approximately 300 scientific papers and review articles and nine books on topics that range from lipid metabolism and acid-base regulation in the body to evolutionary aspects of aging.
A large body of evolutionary psychology research has shown that, in general, women tend to prefer more masculine-looking men -- perhaps because masculine features like broad shoulders or a strong jawline are indicators of virility and good health.
In this vital acute phase, the body's evolutionary metabolic response to injury is rapid catabolism.
There already exists a large body of evolutionary theory ready to be harnessed to conservation genetic problems.
It is probable that lateral-line scales and body ratio evolutionary rates were accelerated in clownfishes because they are indirectly correlated to the ecological niche through another trait.
In view of the multifunctional role of this vitamin in the human body, an evolutionary enrichment in individuals in the population with the potential for high vitamin K exposure seems reasonable.
Moreover, it would capitalize on the fact that evolution is a unifying theory in biology and draw on the substantial body of evolutionary knowledge that has been built up over the last half a century.
This approach has several advantages: it is completely automatic; it is based on a large and well-understood body of evolutionary theory; it only requires raw sequence data to perform this analysis.
