Evolutionary Anthropology Research

In my research of our blog topic, I came across a fascinating study performed at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, comparing human diets to that of other apes. They fed distinctly different diets associated with either humans or apes to laboratory mice, and within only two weeks noted significant differences between the mice that are also noted between the genetics of humans and apes. The implications of this experiment are overwhelming - if only two weeks of eating a certain diet can produce such noticeable results in such a short amount of time, imagine what the effects of a lifetime of eating a certain way may be. We may not exactly be what we eat, but what we eat surely does shape who we are and what we may become. You can follow this link to read the summary of this experiment and its findings:


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080130092139.htm


-Ryan Sharnbroich