Unless you've been living under a rock for the past couple of decades or are one of those people who're in denial about climate change and other related issues, you know … [Read More...] about What Can Indigenous Coastal Peoples Teach Us About Environmental Conservation? 12 Questions with Anthropologist Philippe Max Rouja (PhD)
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As Long as We Keep Disrupting Our Microbiomes & Immune Systems, We’ll Be Easy Prey to Things Like the Coronavirus

As Long as We Keep Disrupting Our Microbiomes & Immune Systems, We’ll Be Easy Prey to Things Like the Coronavirus
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Quick Tip
Care for your kids’ microbiotas. Early-life microbiome composition is of critical importance to physical and mental development, affecting everything from body fat trajectories to food tolerance to neurodevelopment, implying that microbiome awareness and nurturing should be considered a critical component of good parenting. (Previous tips)
Darwin’s corner
“Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.”
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Suggested reading
- “Eden for Humans Is in Southern Africa. We Are All Bushmen.“
- “Humans Have Never Lived in CO2 Concentrations Seen in Earth’s Atmosphere Today: ‘An Experiment on Ourselves’“
- “A New Approach to Cancer Treatment Draws Lessons From Darwin“
- “Why We Feel So Terrible When We Get Sick“
- “Infant Gut Microbiome Predicts Obesity in Pre-Teens“
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Natural selection has built us, and it is natural selection we must understand if we are to comprehend our own identities.
- Robert L. Trivers
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Darwinian Tidbit
The suite of common emotional and behavioral responses to infection & illness, captured under the umbrella term ‘sickness behavior’, can be understood via Darwinian thinking. When one gets sick, the body reacts by activating ‘programs’ aimed at facilitating recovery, which may include things like fever, which is believed to aid the clearance of certain infections, and fatigue, which promotes bedrest and reduced energy expenditure. (Previous tidbits)
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Featured resource: A hard-hitting new paper that gets into the mechanistic evidence in favor of the evolutionary nutrition model
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Sleep Optimization: 10 Tips That Can Help You Sleep Better
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Healthy Food = The Closest Thing to a ‘Magic Pill’
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What Are the Real-Life Benefits to Ancestral Living? 14 Questions with Evolutionary Health Aficionado Alessio Angeleri
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How Extensive Are the Problems with Salt? A Summary of the Evidence
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The Dangers of Extreme Diets
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Humans Moving to Another Planet = A Biological Disaster
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Chew Your Food: Why ‘Shakes’ Are Ill-Considered
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Musculoskeletal Darwinian Medicine: Three Great Exercises That You Can Do Almost Anywhere
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