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Lecture 2 - Food Then, Food Now: Modern Food Conditions and Their Mismatch with Evolution

Presents an evolutionary-mismatch explanation of why preferences shaped in earlier food environments may operate differently in modern ones.

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Use to identify the assumptions of a mismatch hypothesis and distinguish them from direct measurements of present-day eating.

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