"rbowman" wrote in message
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On 07/05/2020 01:08 PM, wrote:
That is what we are told but when the **** hit the fan, granny was
left behind. The average life span for an Indian was about 35 years
anyway.


https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/29/s...ians-ills.html

I doubt the NYT would publish the article today.

"The researchers attributed the widespread decline in health in large part
to the rise of agriculture and urban living. People in South and Central
America began domesticating crops more than 5,000 years ago, and the rise
of cities there began more than 2,000 years ago.

These were mixed blessings. Farming tended to limit the diversity of
diets, and the congestion of towns and cities contributed to the rapid
spread of disease. In the widening inequalities of urban societies, hard
work on low-protein diets left most people vulnerable to illness and early
death."

And hunter gatherers get to die like flies in droughts etc.

Nothing changes.

Plenty does in fact change over time. We dont see anyone
dying like flies in famines anymore except where the place
has deteriorated into the most obscene levels of civil war
and civil chaos or have been stupid enough to let some
fool like Kim Jong Il rule the roost.

And even the Chinese dont eat their neighbours children in
the worst famines anymore. Its easier to swap the kids with
the neighbours and eat theirs than to eat your own apparently.