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How does the adaption to diet/nutrition promote human biological diversity?

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How does the adaption to diet/nutrition promote human biological diversity?

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  1. Goodness. The only one that comes to mind is physical size. Regular access to plentiful and varied food resources during childhood growth leads to bigger people - within limits, I'd expect.


  2. One example is that the Chinese have been for so many generations a non-dairy-eating people that mostly they don't nowadays have the means of digesting milk products that the rest of us do.

    I doubt if it's been measured but I wouldn't be surprised if the Inuit, Sami and other arctic peoples have longer guts or different enzymes in their guts to cope with a mostly-meat diet than multigenerationally mostly- or wholly- vegetarian peoples such as the Brahmins of India.

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