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Why has not human evolution addressed obesity?
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Department of Plastic Surgeryshahr University of Medical Sciencesshahr,
Iran
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Department of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz,
Iran
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Mother and Newborn Health Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd,
Iran
EJMO, 5384 https://doi.org/10.36922/ejmo.5384
Submitted: 22 October 2024 | Accepted: 11 November 2024 | Published: 13 December 2024
© 2024 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
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The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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