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1Dept of Anatomy and Structural Biology, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Abstract:
A computer simulation of exposure at sea in the tropical Pacific supports the hypothesis that humans colonising this region have been subject to strong directional selection for a large muscular body. This is advanced as an explanation for the typical Polynesian phenotype, and suggestions are made linking this phenotype with the metabolic disorders of gout and non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus.
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