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  1. Sep 22, 2024 · Explore the remarkable adaptive traits in human behavior and physiology, from social cooperation to genetic mechanisms, shaping our survival and future challenges.

  2. Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace (1858) famously proposed that positive selection could explain the many marvelous adaptations that suit organisms to their environments and lifestyles, and this...

  3. Aug 5, 2012 · The conceptual framework of research in biological anthropology is that evolutionary selection processes have produced the human species and that these processes have produced a set of genetic characteristics, which adapted our evolving species to their environment.

    • A. Roberto Frisancho
    • 2010
  4. While there is some evidence that classically adaptive traits such as skin pigmentation experienced a contribution from adaptive archaic introgression, by far the strongest evidence for an important role in recent evolution involves the immune system.

    • Iain Mathieson
    • 10.1016/j.gde.2020.06.003
    • 2020
    • 2020/06
  5. According to this idea, some populations evolved lower metabolic rates as an adaptation to heat stress, because lower metabolic rates reduced the amount of heat that the body produced. The lower metabolic rates also predisposed people to gain excess weight and develop obesity and diabetes.

  6. Aug 31, 2020 · We describe a model of the cultural adaptive process, examining aspects of adaptation that are unique to culture, and discuss the possible effects of cultural adaptation on population dynamics.

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  8. Oct 7, 2016 · With the development of in vitro and in vivo technologies, such as tissue-specific cell lines, genome/RNA-editing (such as CRISPR technology), and induced pluripotent stem cells, it is increasingly possible to validate the function of adaptive variants in humans.