A Staple in Your Genes: Europeans Evolved to Eat Vegetable-Heavy Diets

A Staple in Your Genes: Europeans Evolved to Eat Vegetable-Heavy Diets

A study of hundreds of human genomes has revealed humans in different regions of the world have evolved for diets with differing amounts of meat and vegetables – Europeans, particularly southerners, are optimized for a high-plant diet, while Greenland’s Inuits are better able to process fatty meats.