Malnutrition

People usually don't die of old age, they die of things like arteriosclerosis because they live badly or things like starvation and malnutrition which organ transplants don't even begin to solve.

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... been disadvantageous for the species, because older siblings might've competed for mother's limited ability to produce milk, thus causing death or malnutrition of younger siblings. But suddenly, when milk from domestical animals was available, on those regions production of lactase suddenly became ...

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... organism's life span is to restrict its intake of calories - works perfectly well for humans as well! The trick is to eat enough to avoid malnutrition, but eat considerably less than your average human/fruit fly/mouse, depending on what creature happen to be. Apparently this forces the ...

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... & Bigler, E. D. (1991). In vivo brain size and intelligence. Intelligence, 15, 223-228. Winick, M., Meyer, K. K. & Harris, R. C. (1975). Malnutrition and environmental enrichment by early adoption. Science, 190, 1173-1175. Yerkes, R. M. (1921). (Ed.), Psychological examining in the United ...

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... have been conducted (Clark & Hanisee, 1982; Frydman & Lynn, 1989; Winick et al., 1975). As babies, many adoptees had been hospitalized for malnutrition. Nontheless, they went on to develop IQs 10 or more points higher than their adoptive national norms. By contrast, Black and Mixed-Race ...

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