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From an evolutionary standpoint, like bears, we only managed to survive long enough for our offspring to have offspring, which is all that matters for evolution
by moi2388 2y ago
From an evolutionary standpoint, like bears, we only managed to survive long enough for our offspring to have offspring, which is all that matters for evolution.
I never understood why these references are being made regarding health.
Bears aren’t healthy. Bears don’t live long. Ancient people weren’t healthy, their diets weren’t healthy and they had lots of untreated issues as well.
- CRConrad 2y ago> Bears aren’t healthy. Bears don’t live long. I supose quite a few bears live quite long lives -- for being bears. > Ancient people weren’t healthy, their diets weren’t healthy and they had lots of untreated issues as well. As far as I've gathered from (pop-sci summaries of fairly recent-ish) research, people in prehistoric and pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer societies were on average at least as healty as -- and often healthier than -- people in later agricultural societies, from the Bronze and Iron Ages through antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, up until at least the early Modern Age and quite possibly through to our days of (relative, unequally-distributed) affluence and its concomitant recent global obesity.