Worldwide Increase of Obesity Is Related to the Reduced Opportunity for Natural Selection

Alicja Budnik and Maciej Henneberg

PLOS ONE, 2017, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: Worldwide rise of obesity may be partly related to the relaxation of natural selection in the last few generations. Accumulation of mutations affecting metabolism towards excessive fat deposition is suggested to be a result of less purging selection. Using the WHO and UN data for 159 countries there is a significant correlation (r = 0.60, p 30kg/m2). This correlation remains significant (r = 0.32., p

Date: 2017
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