On 18 Dec 2003, at 15:02, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>Very interesting. Do you have some cites on this?
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Child mortality rates for modern hunter gatherers http://harpend.dsl.xmission.com/pennington/humannature/lectures.fall.2003/hgdemo_nofigs.pdf
Hazda, Kung life expectancy and cause of death http://www.anthro.utah.edu/PDFs/Papers/NBJ2002.pdf
Causes of death in pre-Columbian America http://www.hist.umn.edu/~rmccaa/laphb/27fall97/laphb27a.htm
The books Steel, Germs and Guns has some quite useful material on HG populations in Poynesia (where the geography meant thousands of micro experiments and Australasia).
Andrew