Dr. Melissa Ilardo

Yeah, yeah. And in these cold temperatures as well.

Yeah, yeah. And in these cold temperatures as well.

Yeah, yeah. And in these cold temperatures as well.

Yeah, yeah.

And in these cold temperatures as well.

I mean, it certainly could. Diet is an incredible driver of selection. So, you know, a very common example of natural selection is lactase persistence. So our ability to continue to consume milk past infancy. And that happened very quickly in multiple different human populations. So it happened in Africa and it happened in Europe. And another example is the Greenlandic Inuit.

I mean, it certainly could.

I mean, it certainly could. Diet is an incredible driver of selection. So, you know, a very common example of natural selection is lactase persistence. So our ability to continue to consume milk past infancy. And that happened very quickly in multiple different human populations. So it happened in Africa and it happened in Europe. And another example is the Greenlandic Inuit.

I mean, it certainly could. Diet is an incredible driver of selection. So, you know, a very common example of natural selection is lactase persistence. So our ability to continue to consume milk past infancy. And that happened very quickly in multiple different human populations. So it happened in Africa and it happened in Europe. And another example is the Greenlandic Inuit.

Diet is an incredible driver of selection.

So, you know, a very common example of natural selection is lactase persistence.

So our ability to continue to consume milk past infancy.

And that happened very quickly in multiple different human populations.

So it happened in Africa and it happened in Europe.

And another example is the Greenlandic Inuit.

A huge part of their diet was marine mammals that have really high lipid content. And so they actually evolved to be able to better metabolize those lipids so that it wouldn't, you know, kill them from heart disease or something like that. So yeah, diet as a driver of selection is extremely strong. So it may be that this has been shaping our species in ways that we don't even know.

A huge part of their diet was marine mammals that have really high lipid content. And so they actually evolved to be able to better metabolize those lipids so that it wouldn't, you know, kill them from heart disease or something like that. So yeah, diet as a driver of selection is extremely strong. So it may be that this has been shaping our species in ways that we don't even know.

A huge part of their diet was marine mammals that have really high lipid content.

A huge part of their diet was marine mammals that have really high lipid content. And so they actually evolved to be able to better metabolize those lipids so that it wouldn't, you know, kill them from heart disease or something like that. So yeah, diet as a driver of selection is extremely strong. So it may be that this has been shaping our species in ways that we don't even know.

And so they actually evolved to be able to better metabolize those lipids so that it wouldn't, you know, kill them from heart disease or something like that.