Hunter-Gatherer Energetics and Human Obesity

Herman Pontzer; David A. Raichlen; Brian M. Wood; Audax Z. P. Mabulla; Susan B. Racette; Frank W. Marlowe

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040503

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Hunter-Gatherer Energetics and Human Obesity

Herman Pontzer ,

* E-mail: herman.pontzer@hunter.cuny.edu

Affiliations Department of Anthropology, Hunter College, New York, New York, United States of America, New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, New York, New York, United States of America
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David A. Raichlen,

Affiliation School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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Brian M. Wood,

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Audax Z. P. Mabulla,

Affiliation Department of Archeology, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Susan B. Racette,

Affiliation Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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Frank W. Marlowe

Affiliation Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Hunter-Gatherer Energetics and Human Obesity

Herman Pontzer,
David A. Raichlen,
Brian M. Wood,
Audax Z. P. Mabulla,
Susan B. Racette,
Frank W. Marlowe

Published: July 25, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0040503

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Reactions this paper - a triple bill on body weight and obesity

Posted by MattJHodgkinson on 04 Sep 2012 at 11:18 GMT

For a summary of the reactions in the press, social media and article comments to this and two other highly-viewed PLOS ONE papers on body weight and obesity, see this Storify: http://blogs.plos.org/eve...

Competing interests declared: I am a PLOS ONE Associate Editor

RE: Reactions this paper - a triple bill on body weight and obesity

Padre replied to MattJHodgkinson on 01 Nov 2012 at 18:19 GMT

What is this hush, or silence?
Fact is fact, evidence is evidence! And not belief!

Salt and energy expenditure (rats, not human) from 2001:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.g...

and interesting articles:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.g...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.g...

No competing interests declared.

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Reactions this paper - a triple bill on body weight and obesity

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RE: Reactions this paper - a triple bill on body weight and obesity

Padre replied to MattJHodgkinson on 01 Nov 2012 at 18:19 GMT