Overweight & Obesity
Living like a caveman won't make you thin—but it might make you healthy
If you vowed to exercise more in an effort to lose weight this year, the cards are stacked against you.
Jan 18, 2019
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Health
The palaeolithic diet and the unprovable links to our past
We still hear and read a lot about how a diet based on what our Stone Age ancestors ate may be a cure-all for modern ills. But can we really run the clock backwards and find the optimal way to eat? It's a largely impossible ...
Nov 28, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Modern parenting may hinder brain development, researcher claims
(Medical Xpress)—Social practices and cultural beliefs of modern life are preventing healthy brain and emotional development in children, according to an interdisciplinary body of research presented recently at a symposium ...
Jan 7, 2013
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Health
How living like a hunter-gatherer could improve your health
Many of us want to live long, happy and healthy lives. Yet it's often confusing to know the best way to achieve this, and many aspects of modern, westernized living conspire to keep us from achieving this goal.
Jan 6, 2024
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Medical research
Big, rapid gains made in human lifespan: study
(HealthDay)—It's said that life is short. But people living in developed countries typically survive more than twice as long as their hunter-gatherer ancestors did, making 72 the new 30, according to new research.
Oct 15, 2012
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Genetics
A shared past for East Africa's hunter-gatherers
Languages that involve "clicks" are relatively rare worldwide but are spoken by several groups in Africa. The Khoisan language family includes a handful of these click languages, spoken by hunter-gatherer groups in southern ...
Feb 18, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Hunter-gatherer childhoods may offer clues to improving education and well-being in developed countries
Published today in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, a new study by Dr. Nikhil Chaudhary, an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Cambridge, and Dr. Annie Swanepoel, a child psychiatrist, calls for ...
Mar 7, 2023
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Genetics
Ancient genomes reveal immunity adaptation in early farmers
Research from the Francis Crick Institute published today in Current Biology has revealed that diversity in genes coding for immunity may have facilitated adaptation to farming lifestyles in prehistoric periods.
Mar 23, 2023
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Health
Hunter-gatherers live nearly as long as we do but with limited access to healthcare
Modern life has many benefits. Transport, comfy furniture, smartphones, TV, the internet, dentistry and advanced medicine would be at the top of most people's lists. Our bodies also show signs of responding positively to ...
Oct 31, 2018
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Overweight & Obesity
How human evolution busts myths about diet and exercise
Duke professor Herman Pontzer has spent his career counting calories. Not because he's watching his waistline, exactly. But because, as he sees it, "in the economics of life, calories are the currency." Every minute, everything ...
Mar 30, 2021
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