12 - is evo ongoing? Flashcards
EXAM - epigenetic inheritance happens via …
METHYLATION (?)
Methylation is how …
Epigenetic inheritance happens
Even dogs have …
“starch saliva” to deal with shitty human food (less in wolves)
Seasonal affect on a baby’s …
height (summer babies taller)
Cheddar Man (10-11 KYA) probably dark skinned because …
died before Neolithic diet change (VD)
Beringia Standstill Hypothesis
ice sheets blocked migration
Himalayan dogs have some EPAS1 too from
Himalayan wolves
Duffy A/B and Zero. Where?
Zero is in horn of Africa. A/B in Euro.
Duffy A/B in horn of Africa is therefore a sign of …
Emergence of modern homo in Africa. The ones who OOA.
Whale catch depletion NOT explained by depletion. But by…
LEARNING AND COMMUNICATION.
Weiss - does culture reduce natural selection or speed it up?
Faster in developing countries / but that’s not culture. Food culture of North America speeding things up.
Hawkes - acceleration of adaptation ____ in larger populations
sped up (eg., defenses to agro zoonotics)
modern humans are pretty much the same as they were when …
50 KYA
Why hasn’t Diabetes been removed by purifying selection?
Thrifty Gene Hypothesis
Can chimps handle carbohydrates?
Not as well as (saliva) of humans.
