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https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn...P9eR5W1xCx3LM_VRLMuvtFsKPeUhJWtgg7Bu6XoI7hk3I
some surprising results, allthough further investigations are needed :
[FONT="]We united previously disparate osteological and paleogenomic datasets for 167 prehistoric European individuals on a per-individual basis. Our results represent an advance in the study of whether and how a major cultural transition in human evolution affected physiological health. In particular, we show that the average Neolithic individual may have been relatively short even when correcting for expected individual genetic contributions to adult stature. This result may reflect reduced nutrition and/or increased infectious disease burden. We also preliminarily developed a framework for further consideration of these results in the context of particular paleopathological indicators of childhood stress. Looking forward, our model can be expanded in various dimensions (for example, to different world regions or to more constrained spatial and temporal contexts) in order to further the study of emergent physiological trade-offs across periods of dramatic cultural or environmental change. Integrated osteological–genetic approaches will increasingly become important components of the tool kit for studying the dynamics of past human health.
at first sight both quality of food and quality of life for those early farmers seem not to have been very good[/FONT]
some surprising results, allthough further investigations are needed :
[FONT="]We united previously disparate osteological and paleogenomic datasets for 167 prehistoric European individuals on a per-individual basis. Our results represent an advance in the study of whether and how a major cultural transition in human evolution affected physiological health. In particular, we show that the average Neolithic individual may have been relatively short even when correcting for expected individual genetic contributions to adult stature. This result may reflect reduced nutrition and/or increased infectious disease burden. We also preliminarily developed a framework for further consideration of these results in the context of particular paleopathological indicators of childhood stress. Looking forward, our model can be expanded in various dimensions (for example, to different world regions or to more constrained spatial and temporal contexts) in order to further the study of emergent physiological trade-offs across periods of dramatic cultural or environmental change. Integrated osteological–genetic approaches will increasingly become important components of the tool kit for studying the dynamics of past human health.
at first sight both quality of food and quality of life for those early farmers seem not to have been very good[/FONT]