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SUBMITTER: Blekhman R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4894427 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Blekhman Ran R Perry George H GH Shahbaz Sevini S Fiehn Oliver O Clark Andrew G AG Gilad Yoav Y
Scientific reports 20140728
Human diets differ from those of non-human primates. Among few obvious differences, humans consume more meat than most non-human primates and regularly cook their food. It is hypothesized that a dietary shift during human evolution has been accompanied by molecular adaptations in metabolic pathways. Consistent with this notion, comparative studies of gene expression levels in primates have found that the regulation of genes with metabolic functions tend to evolve rapidly in the human lineage. Th ...[more]