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Thanks go to Brooke Scelza for helping to organize the session on “Evolutionary Perspectives on Health and Nutrition” at the Evolutionary Anthropology Society/American Anthropological Association 2008 annual meetings in San Francisco, California. The session contained presentations by Quinlan and Schechter and provided the theme around which this special issue is organized. Thanks to Donna Leonetti, Rob Quinlan, Deborah Schechter, and Kermyt Anderson for helpful comments on this introduction.
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Neill, D.B. Extrinsic Risk . Hum Nat 21, 99–102 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-010-9083-3
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