On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Doug Henwood wrote:
>> What we know from human remains of hunting and gathering societies is
>> that there were not massive differences in the bone structure of adults
>> in these societies; there were not some malnourished people and others
>> who were well fed.
>
> Ok but does this have any implications for life today? It's not likely
> we'll got back to a h&g society, so is this of any more than ancient
> historical interest?
Mainly for evolutionary behaviorists, since this is presumably the type group in which we did our evolving. We haven't done much if any evolving since -- what's ancient history in historical terms is a blink of an eye in evolutionary terms.
Michael