Re: Early farmers malnourished?


<johnwl4@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Deowll Malnourished doesn't always mean lack of calories. The diet
> was often poor.
> How is often known. The condition was often chronic for most or even
> all of
> the people. In some cases an elite few doesn't show malnourishment.
> Sanitation was worse in villages because people built up more
> pollution.
> Chronic diseases were apparently more commo"
>
> Yes, an a good many diseases were mutated from ones that afflicted
> domestic stock. Also, of course, plants may not give a balanced diet
> - people eating 15 pounds of potatoes a day, trying to get enough
> protein - including the essential amino acids.
> That said, a person who starves to death can certainly be said to
> be malnourished. HG people either had something to eat, that was
> reasonably balanced, or they died, so, of course, any skeletons
> wouldn't show evidence of malnutrition, not to mention the fact that
> there are going to be fewer skeletons. Farmers can survive long
> enough to be malnourished.
> I mentioned this before. Are there any studies which show the
> genetic reason why humans cannot make the essential amino acids.
> IIRC, Gorillas can make them - Can Chimpanzees?


I don't know. I do know enough to conclude that some people can live well on
diets that would kill others which makes it hard to know what is a balanced
diet.

> Incidentally, Jois, there is some material in Jobling, et. al.
> about the domestication of plants - goes for the Karadadag region of
> domestication for wheat ( yeah, I peeked at the back of the book to see
> if the butler did it - this book is never going to make the best seller
> list for light reading.) Quite a bit on lactose intolerance -
> interesting that the genetic change that allows herding people to
> digest lactose is in an intron far away from the lactase gene.
> Example of something Evelyn Keller talked about in _The Century of the
> Gene_ that the expression of genes is quite complicated.
> REgards
> John GW
>


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