Posts Tagged ‘thigh bone’

Agriculture, declining mobility drove humans’ shift to lighter bones

Cross-sections of an Upper Paleolithic, left, and Early Medieval, right, thigh bone, showing the change in bone shape and reduction in strength in the later individual. Credit: Study authors Modern lifestyles have famously made humans heavier, but, in one particular way, noticeably lighter weight than our hunter-gatherer ancestors: in the bones. Now a new study […]

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