{"id":361488,"date":"2010-02-23T11:35:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23157"},"modified":"2010-02-23T11:35:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:35:01","slug":"obesity-big-feet-blame-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/361488","title":{"rendered":"Obesity? Big Feet? Blame Darwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23158\" style=\"margin-top: 10px;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-left: 20px;margin-right: 20px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/446px-Darwin_ape-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"&#34;A Venerable Orang-outang&#34;, a caricature of Charles Darwin as an ape published in The Hornet, a satirical magazine.\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" \/>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704454304575081613327728110.html\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Evolution, the theory goes, guarantees survival to the fittest. But we can blame evolution for some of today&#8217;s most pressing health problems, such as cancer, obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n<p>A 2009 Gallup poll found that 44% of Americans believe that God created human beings in their present form within the past 10,000 years. Many of them also think the human body is perfectly designed.<\/p>\n<p>But most scientists\u2014including biologists, anthropologists, paleontologists and geneticists\u2014see the 21st century human body as a collection of compromises, jury-rigged by evolution as our ancestors adapted to changing conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In many ways, we are maladapted for modernity,&#8221; says Stephen Stearns, a Yale evolutionary biologist. He and others in the field are urging medical schools to include more evolutionary thinking when teaching doctors about modern diseases.<\/p>\n<p>For&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wall Street Journal: Evolution, the theory goes, guarantees survival to the fittest. But we can blame evolution for some of today&#8217;s most pressing health problems, such as cancer, obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. A 2009 Gallup poll found that 44% of Americans believe that God created human beings in their present form within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}