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This is incorrect: > "The bones of 'domiciled' Homo sapiens compared with those of hunter-gatherers are also distinctive: they are smaller; the bones and teeth
by soledades 6y ago
This is incorrect:
> "The bones of 'domiciled' Homo sapiens compared with those of hunter-gatherers are also distinctive: they are smaller; the bones and teeth often bear the signature of nutritional distress, in particular, an iron-deficiency anemia marked above all in women of reproductive age whose diets consist increasingly of grains"
from Against the Grain
see also: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3917328/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3917328/
- Godel_unicode 6y agoMineral deficiency is a chronic lack of a particular nutrient, starvation is an acute lack.
- soledades 6y agoThere is such a thing as chronic starvation, and the smaller bones reflect that, not mineral deficiency. The linked article addresses famine more specifically.
- Godel_unicode 6y agoIt does not.