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Diet-Induced Weight Loss Alters Functional Brain Responses during an Episodic Memory Task
Objective: It has been suggested that overweight is negatively associated with cognitive functions. The aim of this study was to investigate whether a reduction in body weight by dietary interventions could improve episodic memory performance and alter ...
Carl-Johan Boraxbekk +6 more
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Human Dental Microwear From Ohalo II (22,500–23,500 cal BP), Southern Levant [PDF]
Dietary hardness and abrasiveness are inferred from human dental microwear at Ohalo II, a late Upper Palaeolithic site (22,500–23,500 cal BP) in the southern Levant.
Agelarakis +123 more
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Climate Change Challenges Grey Wolf Resilience: Insights From Dental Microwear
We investigate dietary plasticity in European grey wolves across interglacial periods using dental microwear texture analysis. Enhanced durophagy is associated with warm climates in both modern Polish and British Pleistocene wolves, indicating deep‐time behavioural flexibility.
Amanda A. Burtt +7 more
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Neandertal man the hunter: A history of Neandertal subsistence
The history of Neandertals has been examined by a number of researchers who highlight how historical biases have impacted popular and scientific perceptions of Neandertals.
Ready, E.
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The site of Barmaky currently marks the oldest Epigravettian occupation of north‐western Ukraine shortly after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), dated to around 19 cal. ka BP. Stable isotope analyses of bone collagen from six terrestrial mammals and two bird species show a comparatively highly structured palaeo‐food web.
Lilian Reiss +6 more
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Efficacy of paleolithic diet in control of blood glucose level in type 2 DM patients
Background Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is a widespread metabolic disorder characterized by poor regulation of blood glucose and resistance to insulin.
Nagy Nageh Abdo Sous +3 more
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Power in Cultural Evolution and the Spread of Prosocial Norms [PDF]
According to cultural evolutionary theory in the tradition of Boyd and Richerson, cultural evolution is driven by individuals' learning biases, natural selection, and random forces.
Cofnas, Nathan
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From lifetime to evolution: timescales of human gut microbiota adaptation
Human beings harbor gut microbial communities that are essential to preserve human health. Molded by the human genome, the gut microbiota is an adaptive component of the human superorganisms that allows host adaptation at different timescales, optimizing
Sara eQuercia +18 more
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The human fear-circuitry and fear-induced fainting in healthy individuals The paleolithic-threat hypothesis [PDF]
The Paleolithic-Threat hypothesis reviewed here posits that habitual efferent fainting can be traced back to fear-induced allelic polymorphisms that were selected into some genomes of anatomically, mitochondrially, and neurally modern humans (Homo
Bracha, Adam S. +4 more
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A new explanatory model for the first Upper Paleolithic occupations in SW Iberia [PDF]
Jornadas de Jóvenes en Investigación Arqueológica, JIA (3as : 5-7 de mayo 2010 : Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Sesión 12. Demographic processes and cultural change : archaeological perspectives.A new explanatory model for this crucial transition in
Ramos Pereira, Telmo Jorge
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