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Anthropology

sybylla

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8. Because the data necessarily encompasses lives lived thousands of years ago...

Reply to Warpy (Reply #7)

Thu Jul 18, 2024, 03:21 PM

Jul 2024

...and so much data has been lost, the data set cannot be complete.

This reminds me when all the white European scientists said that New World populations could not have crossed before the last ice age. Now, a combination of new scientific analyses show they have been here for as long as 33,000 years.

Clearly, you and I are going nowhere. So have a nice life.

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The plague may have caused the downfall of the Stone Age farmers [View all] Judi Lynn Jul 2024 OP

If one wishes to hear an interview with the researcher, he was on the RockRaven Jul 2024 #1

thank you judi and rock et tu Jul 2024 #2

Not surprising. I't's long been known that health and life expectancy declined Warpy Jul 2024 #3

"They'd gotten to used to a steady supply of nutritionally dense foods." You mean... sybylla Jul 2024 #4

Disease was rampant and dying in infancy was common Warpy Jul 2024 #5

A) Correlation is not causation. sybylla Jul 2024 #6

The data are in and when people turned to farming, their health tood a dive Warpy Jul 2024 #7

Because the data necessarily encompasses lives lived thousands of years ago... sybylla Jul 2024 #8

Either people accept science or they don't Warpy Jul 2024 #9