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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.

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  1. 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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    ↗David Reich – Bronze Age shock, the Neanderthal puzzle, & the sudden spread of farmingyoutube.com

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