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The evolutionary assumptions underlying the Paleolithic diet have been disputed.

According to Alexander Ströhle, Maike Wolters and Andreas Hahn, with the Department of Food Science at the University of Hanover, the statement that the human genome evolved during the Pleistocene ( a period from 1, 808, 000 to 11, 550 years ago ) rests on an inadequate, but popular gene-centered view of evolution.

They rely on Gray ( 2001 )