famines are a fairly recent, not a Palaeolithic, phenomenon; famines only involve approximately 10% mortality in a population; because most people during times of famine die of disease, not starvation, there would be no significant differential mortality between lean and fat-laden individuals; there is no net effect of famine on fecundity; and that, to date, no convincing gene candidates for thrifty genes have been discovered.
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