This is a preview. Log in through your library . Publisher Information The purpose of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) is to foster the development and dissemination of the theory and ...

The influential 'thrifty genotype' hypothesis [11] proposed that selection favoured metabolic thrift in ancestral populations exposed to regular 'cycles of feast and famine'. The genetic factors ...

The hypothesis that population genetic variability in adipose tissue biology might relate more to the epidemiology of disease than that of starvation is consistent with Speakman's argument that famine ...