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Europeans have been under selection against body fat for 10,000 years because farming made the food supply steadier, not less stable.
Drawn from what David Reich said
SubjectEurope
What David Reich actually said
- David Reich Geneticist at Harvard Medical School
And so, maybe what you're seeing is that this group of people in Europe and the Middle East over the last 10,000 years has moved into a a period of relatively more stable food, where building up stores of fat are not as advantageous, and there's been selection against this combination of traits.
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