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Review of Jonathan CK Wells’s The Evolutionary Biology of Human Body Fatness: Thrift and Control (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)

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  1. Many lizards, for example, store fat nearly exclusively in their tails.

  2. Nor has the inverse—where failure to accomplish such shifts has led to potential fitness deficits—been established.

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Baker, J. Review of Jonathan CK Wells’s The Evolutionary Biology of Human Body Fatness: Thrift and Control (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Hum Nat 22, 439–443 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-011-9124-6

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