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Physical Activity and Irritable Bowel Syndrome: The Role of Evolutionary Mismatch in Chronic Disease Risk

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 187, Issue 4, August 2025.
ABSTRACT Objectives Rising rates of noncommunicable diseases have been attributed to evolutionary mismatch between past physical activity and sedentary, post‐industrial behavior. Epidemiologic research suggests that sedentism increases irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) risk.
Makenna B. Lenover Moyer, Mary K. Shenk
wiley   +1 more source

Systems Modeling at Multiple Levels of Regulation: Linking Systems and Genetic Networks to Spatially Explicit Plant Populations

Plants, 2013
Selection and adaptation of individuals to their underlying environments are highly dynamical processes, encompassing interactions between the individual and its seasonally changing environment, synergistic or antagonistic interactions between ...
James L. Kitchen, Robin G. Allaby
doaj   +1 more source

Khazars or "Saltovo-Majaki Culture"? Prejudices about Archaeology and Ethnicity

Current Swedish Archaeology, 1996
This paper deals with the problems and discussions of the diversified cultural changes and the multicultural aspects of prehistoric societies. Prejudices about archaeology and "ethnicity" are exemplified by the almost 150 year old discussions on the ...
Bozena Werbart
doaj   +1 more source

Human mobility and early sedentism: the Late Neolithic landscape of southern Azerbaijan

Antiquity, 2018
Recent survey and excavation conducted in the Mil Plain region of the southern part of the Republic of Azerbaijan challenges traditional notions of Neolithic sedentism.
A. Ricci, M. D'Anna, D. Lawrence, B. Helwing, Tevekkül Aliyev   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Human sedentism and use of animal resources on the prehistoric Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Geographical Science, 2023
Qing Wang, Ying Zhang, Shungang Chen, Yu Gao, Jishuai Yang, Jingkun Ran, Zhengquan Gu, Xiaoyan Yang   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Neolithisation in southwest Asia – the path to modernity

Documenta Praehistorica, 2006
Two questions are discussed that turn out to be related. The first was posed originally by Robert Braidwood more than fifty years ago, and concerns why farming was adopted in southwest Asia early in the Neolithic, and not earlier. The second concerns the
Trevor Watkins
doaj   +1 more source

Identifying pastoral and plant products in local and imported pottery in Early Bronze Age southeastern Arabia.

PLoS ONE
The origins of ceramic technology in the Oman Peninsula have a unique history in the context of ancient West Asia. Local pottery production in northern Oman and the United Arab Emirates is not documented until the early to mid-third millennium BC during ...
Akshyeta Suryanarayan, Sophie Méry, Jennifer Swerida, Michele Degli Esposti, Eli Dollarhide, Stephanie Döpper, Khaled A Douglas, Daniel Eddisford, Nasser S Al-Jahwari, Arnaud Mazuy, Núria Moraleda-Cibrián, Michel de Vreeze, Joan Villanueva, Cameron A Petrie, Martine Regert   +14 more
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Subsidiarity in the Shadow of Sovereignty

Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 427-436, Fall 2025.
Loren King
wiley   +1 more source

Tracing nomadic imprints in sedentary settings: a case study on the housing and settlement patterns of the Bede community

Built Heritage
This study aims to trace nomadic imprints in the sedentary settings of the Bede community through a comprehensive survey of their housing and settlement patterns. Bede are known primarily for their nomadic lifestyle and trading profession.
Fatema Tuz Zohora, Shubhajit Chowdhury
doaj   +1 more source

Social complexity is not strongly predictive of indiscriminate killing of wartime enemies in a cross-cultural sample

Evolutionary Human Sciences
The origins and correlates of war are historically contentious in anthropology, with researchers divided over its relationship to the development of agriculture, sedentism, and centralized states.
Kiran Basava
doaj   +1 more source