Sentence examples for diet evolution from inspiring English sources
But since potassium was plentiful in the early human diet, evolution built in a mechanism for releasing potassium to protect against a hazardous excess, which can cause abnormal heart rhythms and muscular paralysis.
For feeding diet evolution, we compared the fit of a two rate model (asymmetric model) to the fit of a single rate model (mk1) model and using the preferred model, we reconstructed ancestral states for several nodes of interest.
"People who study diet and evolution have pointed out most of the high sugar containing plants like sugarcane are tropical plants," he notes.
Given the wide diversity in diets of the extant Carnivora - ranging from hypercarnivores to the more generalist 'mesocarnivores' (e.g. dogs and bears) to the mainly plant-eating 'hypocarnivores' (e.g. giant panda and red panda) - the order Carnivora provides a unique opportunity to explore the relationship between diet and evolution of the drug metabolizing enzymes.
Thus, based on findings from previous section on human diet and evolution, it is very unlikely that human leptin could be specifically adapted to an agrarian diet.
How has diet influenced dog evolution?
(For other aspects of evolution, diet, and public health; see Omenn 2010).
We designed a study to assess the effects of the amount of protein in the diet on the evolution of episodic hepatic encephalopathy.
Previous studies have demonstrated the possible effect of the diet on the evolution of the disease.
During human evolution, diet shifts may create different selective pressures acting on the genetic variations of human populations.
Shifts in both phenotype and diet during human evolution (Aiello and Wheeler 1995) may have necessitated shifts in the regulation of core metabolic pathways.
