• The characteristics that most distinguish humans from other primates are largely the results of natural selection acting to improve the quality of the human diet and the efficiency with which our ancestors obtained food. Some scientists have proposed that many of the health problems modern societies face are consequences of a discrepancy between what we eat and what our Paleolithic forebears ate.
  
  
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