ANT208H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Prenatal Care, Puberty, Iceberg
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All term material covered up until the end of this week. The key stages and how each of them is defined. Neolithic: shifting from hunter gatherer to agriculture. Key example of how diet can shape evolution. Elements of the osteological paradox: hidden heterogeneity of risk. Everyone has a different risk to exposures than others. Different people have different immune systems: selective mortality. We are looking at people who died in a skeletal record who were selected from a range of other people: the nature of bone response. You will only see disease that go on for a long time. A shift to agricultures resulted in negative health. We need to look at context to see what was going on. Environmental mismatch theory: theory that we are maladapted to our current "western" diet and way of life. Type ii diabetes: popular manifestation in paleolithic diet. A few cautionary notes: always variability across the human range.
