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Increases in the rate of obesity in modern industrialized societies may have an evolutionary basis. What is the specific evolutionary hypothesis about body weight?

▸ We have genes for obesity.

▸ We evolved to have a metabolism that speeds up dramatically whenever we gain weight.

▸ Being obese increases your reproductive capacity.

▸ It was adaptive to overeat and store fat to survive environments where food was scarce.

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