Environmental Differences between Humans Living in Active, Subsistence Populations Versus Sedentary (IMAGE)

Arizona State University

Environmental Differences between Humans Living in Active, Subsistence Populations Versus Sedentary

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Although humans evolved in a mosaic of different environments, sedentary industrialized urban environments are evolutionarily novel. ASU scientists predict that these shifts in the environment may contribute to mismatches between how our immune systems have been shaped by natural selection to respond to the environment and how they are now responding, resulting in human disease.

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<em>Trends in Genetics</em>

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