By Studying Skinny Apes, Science Figured Out Why Humans Are So Fat

[paymanz]

Well,tittle is a bit misleading but its interesting,

By Studying Skinny Apes, Science Figured Out Why Humans Are So Fat | VICE | United States

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One of those differences is that humans got fat. Chimps and bonobos are 13 percent skin, and we're only 6 percent skin, but we compensate for that by being up to 36 percent body fat on the high end of average, while bonobos average 4 percent. That's a wildly disproportional fatness differential.

Its the study:
Body composition in Pan paniscus compared with Homo sapiens has implications for changes during human evolution. - PubMed - NCBI


The human body has been shaped by natural selection during the past 4–5 million years. Fossils preserve bones and teeth but lack muscle, skin, fat, and organs. To understand the evolution of the human form, information about both soft and hard tissues of our ancestors is needed. Our closest living relatives of the genus Pan provide the best comparative model to those ancestors. Here, we present data on the body composition of 13 bonobos (Pan paniscus) measured during anatomical dissections and compare the data with Homo sapiens. These comparative data suggest that both females and males (i) increased body fat, (ii) decreased relative muscle mass, (iii) redistributed muscle mass to lower limbs, and (iv) decreased relative mass of skin during human evolution. Comparison of soft tissues between Pan and Homo provides new insights into the function and evolution of body composition

 

[Ahanu]

The human body has been shaped by natural selection during the past 4–5 million years. Fossils preserve bones and teeth but lack muscle, skin, fat, and organs. To understand the evolution of the human form, information about both soft and hard tissues of our ancestors is needed. Our closest living relatives of the genus Pan provide the best comparative model to those ancestors. Here, we present data on the body composition of 13 bonobos (Pan paniscus) measured during anatomical dissections and compare the data with Homo sapiens. These comparative data suggest that both females and males (i) increased body fat, (ii) decreased relative muscle mass, (iii) redistributed muscle mass to lower limbs, and (iv) decreased relative mass of skin during human evolution. Comparison of soft tissues between Pan and Homo provides new insights into the function and evolution of body composition

nice find, thank you!
so a little fat is natural for the homo sapiens? but about what % ? what do you think?

 

[Travis]

It it caused by eating unnatural food.

There are no fat raw vegans. There are no fat deer.

I raised a baby squirrel that I found in the attic once. I fed him nothing but peanut butter (I was a kid). The squirrel got fat.

 

[paymanz]

nice find, thank you!
so a little fat is natural for the homo sapiens? but about what % ? what do you think?

I have no idea in that regard,but the difference in skin weight was interesting for me.

 

[paymanz]

It it caused by eating unnatural food.

There are no fat raw vegans. There are no fat deer.

I raised a baby squirrel that I found in the attic once. I fed him nothing but peanut butter (I was a kid). The squirrel got fat.

and those animals naturally eat high PUFA food I believe.