Penny Spikins, an archaeologist at the University of York told the British Science Festival that of 50 skeletons of Neanderthals unearthed worldwide, around a third had some kind of disability. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7462229/Neanderthals-looked-like-wars.html?ito=amp_twitter_share-top … via @MailOnline
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"What’s most interesting if we look at modern hunting and gathering populations they say that perhaps only 10 per cent of the time they ever feel well and healthy.”
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" 10 per cent of the time". Do I believe this? Nope.
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More, lots more.
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50%? 75%? 90%? More or less than 21st-century post-industrial First Worlders (controlled for age)?
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Consider: The ones who were really sick/crippled just died rather than being able to live impaired. And being less crowded, they didn't have our infectious disease burden. Bottom line: when people find isolated tribes these days, they often remark on their good health.
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