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1Estonian Centre of Evolutionary Ecology,Tartu,Estonia,50108dr.george.lozano@gmail.comwww.georgealozano.com.
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
|January 19, 2018
Abstract:
Can ideas about the regulation of body mass in birds be used to explain the breakdown of regulation associated with obesity and anorexia in humans? There is no evidence to think so. Medicine can always benefit from the application of evolutionary ecology ideas, but we must be prepared to dismiss these ideas when they just do not fit the data.
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