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Dawn of agriculture took toll on health
Emory University ^ | June 7, 2011 | Carol Clark

Posted on 06/15/2011 7:13:01 AM PDT by decimon

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To: null and void

In my own defense, I suspect FR is screwing up, or possibly under some kind of hack attack.


21 posted on 06/19/2011 9:03:54 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

You can say that again!

It took a dozen tries to post my last comment.


22 posted on 06/19/2011 9:19:19 AM PDT by null and void (Day 878. When your only tools are a Hammer & Sickle, everything looks like a Capitalist...)
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To: decimon

Moral: Eat more meat - humans need meat, it made us the creatures we are.


23 posted on 06/20/2011 3:13:31 AM PDT by ZULU (Lindsey Graham is a nanometrical pustule of pusillanimous putrescence)
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To: Sherman Logan

kinda like the movie Idiocracy?


24 posted on 06/20/2011 6:39:13 AM PDT by stefanbatory (Insert witty tagline here)
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To: SJSAMPLE
Or maybe the weak and infirm stopped STARVING?

That too. In a hunter/gatherer culture, you have to be fit enough to move with the tribe as it follows the herds.

One advantage with agriculture is it allows a square mile of land to support more people than hunting does. Having more men makes it easier to defend your territory, even if the average farmer is less physically fit than a hunter.

25 posted on 06/20/2011 6:46:46 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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To: stefanbatory

Haven’t seen it, so can’t say.

I am, however, continually amazed anew by those who claim they are believers in evolution but assume that humans are for some obscure reason not subject to survival of the fittest or the laws of genetics.

It is pretty comprehensively proven that raw intelligence is heritable in the range of 40% to 80%. Yet somehow we are supposed to believe that reproduction disproportionately by the less intelligent will have no effect on society.


26 posted on 06/20/2011 6:38:14 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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