Fragile bones linked to inactivity over millennia

05 Jan 2015


Human bones have become much lighter and more fragile since the invention of agriculture, mostly attributable to a more sedentary lifestyle that arose during the switch from foraging to farming, according to recent study findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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