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Warpy

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7. The data are in and when people turned to farming, their health tood a dive

Reply to sybylla (Reply #6)

Wed Jul 17, 2024, 10:22 PM

Jul 2024

It certainly wasn't a lack of exercise, farming is the hardest work out there.

Farming required a learning curve that took millennia to achieve.

And it made them sick and shortened their lives for a very long time.

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The plague may have caused the downfall of the Stone Age farmers [View all] Judi Lynn Jul 2024 OP

If one wishes to hear an interview with the researcher, he was on the RockRaven Jul 2024 #1

thank you judi and rock et tu Jul 2024 #2

Not surprising. I't's long been known that health and life expectancy declined Warpy Jul 2024 #3

"They'd gotten to used to a steady supply of nutritionally dense foods." You mean... sybylla Jul 2024 #4

Disease was rampant and dying in infancy was common Warpy Jul 2024 #5

A) Correlation is not causation. sybylla Jul 2024 #6

The data are in and when people turned to farming, their health tood a dive Warpy Jul 2024 #7

Because the data necessarily encompasses lives lived thousands of years ago... sybylla Jul 2024 #8

Either people accept science or they don't Warpy Jul 2024 #9