Paul Saladino· MD
we know about current hunter-gatherer tribes is that they are shorter than their previous generations and that there are political norms now that prevent them from hunting big animals
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
we know about current hunter-gatherer tribes is that they are shorter than their previous generations and that there are political norms now that prevent them from hunting big animals
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if you look at indigenous people they are actually smaller than their relatives over a number of generations and this is probably because they are limited in their scope they're limited in their hunting lands they're limited in what they can hunt indigenous people are unfortunately limited whether it's the hadza the kang the sun whoever they're limited by the countries they live in