Fatness and fitness: exposing the logic of evolutionary explanations for obesity

The evolution of decision rules in complex environments

(2014) Tim W. Fawcett et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Adaptive management of body mass by Siberian jays

(2013) Irja Ida Ratikainen et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Evolutionary Perspectives on the Obesity Epidemic: Adaptive, Maladaptive, and Neutral Viewpoints

(2013) John R. Speakman   Annual Review of Nutrition

Obesity as malnutrition: The role of capitalism in the obesity global epidemic

(2012) Jonathan C.K. Wells   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

Food and fitness: associations between crop yields and life-history traits in a longitudinally monitored pre-industrial human population

(2012) A. D. Hayward et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Set points, settling points and some alternative models: theoretical options to understand how genes and environments combine to regulate body adiposity

(2011) J. R. Speakman et al.   Disease Models & Mechanisms

Evidence of the Trade-Off between Starvation and Predation Risks in Ducks

(2011) Cédric Zimmer et al.   PLoS One

Causes of mortality in a Geoffroy’s cat population—a long-term survey using diverse recording methods

(2010) Javier A. Pereira et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Canaries in the coal mine: a cross-species analysis of the plurality of obesity epidemics

(2010) Y. C. Klimentidis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fattening strategies of wintering great tits support the optimal body mass hypothesis under conditions of extremely low ambient temperature

(2009) Indrikis Krams et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

How climate change might influence the starvation-predation risk trade-off response

(2009) W. Cresswell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Integrating function and mechanism

(2009) John M. McNamara et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Modeling weight-loss maintenance to help prevent body weight regain

(2008) Kevin D Hall et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Evolutionary origins of the obesity epidemic: natural selection of thrifty genes or genetic drift following predation release?

(2008) A M Prentice et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Thrifty genes for obesity, an attractive but flawed idea and an alternative perspective: the ‘drifty gene’ hypothesis

(2008) J R Speakman   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Mortality of Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa and Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus chicks in wet grasslands: influence of predation and agriculture

(2008) Hans Schekkerman et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY