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SUBMITTER: Briga M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5698635 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Briga Michael M Griffin Robert M RM Berger Vérane V Pettay Jenni E JE Lummaa Virpi V
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20171101 1866
Many fundamental concepts in evolutionary biology were discovered using non-human study systems. Humans are poorly suited to key study designs used to advance this field, and are subject to cultural, technological, and medical influences often considered to restrict the pertinence of human studies to other species and general contexts. Whether studies using current and recent human populations provide insights that have broader biological relevance in evolutionary biology is, therefore, frequent ...[more]