Stay-at-home orders issued at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic ushered the hoarding of food and surges in digital entertainment subscriptions, restaurant take-out and delivery services—a perfect storm for a collective couch potato phenomenon. Now, researchers have discovered what prolonged physical inactivity may mean for humans many thousands of years down the road by studying cavefish.
Scientists use cavefish to learn more about metabolism and the evolutionary basis of being a couch potato
- PhysOrg
- 24. 1 2023 (22:15)