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How have environments and people changed?
Environements - Modern buildings. People- lazier
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What traits were adaptive in the past but are maladaptive now?
Inter-group aggression, promiscuity
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What are the limits to the effectiveness of natural selection?
The most obvious limit to natural selection is that suitable variation may not be available
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Is genetic evolution needed to adapt to changing conditions or are ‘plastic’ responses sufficient?
Yes, especially in the short term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenotypic_plasticity#Plasticity_in_a_changing_world
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Can thinking in these terms help us to address modern problems, from the obesity epidemic to anti-social behaviour or coping with climate change impacts?
The diet in paleolithic times included meat, nuts and berries. At the time, they adapted to the food that was available to them and this is what their metabolism is based on. It is said that modern humans are still best adapted to paleolithic diet
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