Amanda J Lea, Andrew G Clark, Andrew W Dahl, Orrin Devinsky, Angela R Garcia, Christopher D Golden, Joseph Kamau, Thomas S Kraft, Yvonne A L Lim, Dino J Martins, Donald Mogoi, Päivi Pajukanta, George H Perry, Herman Pontzer, Benjamin C Trumble, Samuel S Urlacher, Vivek V Venkataraman, Ian J Wallace, Michael Gurven, Daniel E Lieberman, Julien F Ayroles
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are on the rise worldwide. Obesity, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes are among a long list of "lifestyle" diseases that were rare throughout human history but are now common. The evolutionary mismatch hypothesis posits that humans evolved in environments that radically differ from those we currently experience; consequently, traits that were once advantageous may now be "mismatched" and disease causing. At the genetic level, this hypothesis predicts that loci with a history of selection will exhibit "genotype by environment" (GxE) interactions, with different health effects in "ancestral" versus "modern" environments...
September 11, 2023: PLoS Biology