Evolutionary basis for the human diet: consequences for human health

Nutrition and its role in human evolution

(2019) W. P. T. James et al.   JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Effect of a Low Free Sugar Diet vs Usual Diet on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Adolescent Boys

(2019) Jeffrey B. Schwimmer et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Ramadan diurnal intermittent fasting modulates SOD2, TFAM, Nrf2, and sirtuins (SIRT1, SIRT3) gene expressions in subjects with overweight and obesity

(2019) Mohamed I. Madkour et al.   DIABETES RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTICE

Elemental signatures of Australopithecus africanus teeth reveal seasonal dietary stress

(2019) Renaud Joannes-Boyau et al.   NATURE

The long limb bones of the StW 573 Australopithecus skeleton from Sterkfontein Member 2: Descriptions and proportions

(2019) Jason L. Heaton et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Taphonomy of burnt bones from Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa)

(2018) Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Excavation, reconstruction and taphonomy of the StW 573 Australopithecus prometheus skeleton from Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa

(2018) Ronald J. Clarke   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Effects of Dietary Fructose Restriction on Liver Fat, De Novo Lipogenesis, and Insulin Kinetics in Children With Obesity

(2017) Jean-Marc Schwarz et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY

New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens

(2017) Jean-Jacques Hublin et al.   NATURE

The discovery of fire by humans: a long and convoluted process

(2016) J. A. J. Gowlett   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Activation of the Nrf2 Cell Defense Pathway by Ancient Foods: Disease Prevention by Important Molecules and Microbes Lost from the Modern Western Diet

(2016) Donald R. Senger et al.   PLoS One

A systematic revision of Proconsul with the description of a new genus of early Miocene hominoid

(2015) Kieran P. McNulty et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Lowering Uric Acid With Allopurinol Improves Insulin Resistance and Systemic Inflammation in Asymptomatic Hyperuricemia

(2015) Mumtaz Takir et al.   JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE MEDICINE

Isocaloric fructose restriction and metabolic improvement in children with obesity and metabolic syndrome

(2015) Robert H. Lustig et al.   Obesity

The Fat Gene

(2015) Richard J. Johnson et al.   SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

The evolution of human and ape hand proportions

(2015) Sergio Almécija et al.   Nature Communications

Uric acid-dependent inhibition of AMP kinase induces hepatic glucose production in diabetes and starvation: evolutionary implications of the uricase loss in hominids

(2014) Christina Cicerchi et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

The ‘other faunivory’ revisited: Insectivory in human and non-human primates and the evolution of human diet

(2014) William C. McGrew   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Evolutionary history and metabolic insights of ancient mammalian uricases

(2014) J. T. Kratzer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Remnants of an ancient forest provide ecological context for Early Miocene fossil apes

(2014) Lauren A. Michel et al.   Nature Communications

Prolonged fasting activates Nrf2 in post-weaned elephant seals

(2013) J. P. Vazquez-Medina et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Redefining metabolic syndrome as a fat storage condition based on studies of comparative physiology

(2013) Richard J. Johnson et al.   Obesity

Determining the response of African biota to climate change: using the past to model the future

(2013) K. J. Willis et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Uric Acid Induces Hepatic Steatosis by Generation of Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress

(2012) Miguel A. Lanaspa et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The paleoenvironment of Hispanopithecus laietanus as revealed by paleobotanical evidence from the Late Miocene of Can Llobateres 1 (Catalonia, Spain)

(2012) Josep Marmi et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Microstratigraphic evidence of in situ fire in the Acheulean strata of Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape province, South Africa

(2012) F. Berna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genomic Tools for Evolution and Conservation in the Chimpanzee: Pan troglodytes ellioti Is a Genetically Distinct Population

(2012) Rory Bowden et al.   PLoS Genetics

Dryopithecins, Darwin, de Bonis, and the European origin of the African apes and human clade

(2011) David R. Begun   GEODIVERSITAS

Woody cover and hominin environments in the past 6 million years

(2011) Thure E. Cerling et al.   NATURE

Rudabànya: Taphonomic analysis of a fossil hominid site from Hungary

(2010) Peter Andrews et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

STUDIES OF THE HANDS OF LIVING PRIMATES

(2010) J. R. NAPIER   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON

The Geological, Isotopic, Botanical, Invertebrate, and Lower Vertebrate Surroundings of Ardipithecus ramidus

(2009) G. WoldeGabriel et al.   SCIENCE

Combining Prehension and Propulsion: The Foot of Ardipithecus ramidus

(2009) C. O. Lovejoy et al.   SCIENCE

The Pelvis and Femur of Ardipithecus ramidus: The Emergence of Upright Walking

(2009) C. O. Lovejoy et al.   SCIENCE

Effect of Allopurinol on Blood Pressure of Adolescents With Newly Diagnosed Essential Hypertension

(2008) Daniel I. Feig et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Identification of a single birth cohort in Kenyapithecus kizili and the nature of sympatry between K. kizili and Griphopithecus alpani at Paşalar

(2008) Jay Kelley   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

A new hominoid species from the middle Miocene site of Paşalar, Turkey

(2008) Jay Kelley et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Hominoid phalanges from the middle Miocene site of Paşalar, Turkey

(2008) A. Ersoy et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Demeter's legacy: rapid changes to our genome imposed by diet

(2008) E PATIN et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION