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Cross-Species Obesity Trends Analysis by Keith Houston is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document summarizes a study that analyzed body weight trends over time across 24 populations from 8 species that live near humans, including primates, rodents, dogs, cats, and rats. The study found that in all populations, the estimated trend was for body weights to increase over time, with a probability of 1.2 x 10-27 that all trends would increase by chance. Surprisingly, average mid-life body weights were found to have risen in primates and rodents in research colonies as well as feral rodents and d

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Keith Houston

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