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Meat-rich diets and a single gene variant may have contributed to the physiological evolution of modern humans
Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Publishing in Cell Genomics, researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the co-evolution of these traits. This mutation seems to help people grow taller—especially when they consume a lot of meat.
Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Publishing in Cell Genomics, researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the co-evolution of these traits. This mutation seems to help people grow taller—especially when they consume a lot of meat.
