From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:55:47 -0300, Salvador Mirzo wrote:   
      
   > We’re told that life was “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and   
   > short” back then—but that narrative comes to us from the ones who   
   > stamped out that way of life, not the ones who practiced it.   
      
   We also have the evidence of their dead bodies. Look at the graves of   
   hunter-gatherers, compared to, say, those of the early agricultural   
   societies. The hunter-gatherers look like a much fitter bunch, while the   
   agriculturalists often show evidence of suffering from a variety of   
   chronic medical conditions. But remember, they all died anyway. So it   
   didn’t take as much to kill the hunter-gatherers as it did to knock off   
   someone from a society practising organized agriculture.   
      
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