Horticultural activity predicts later localized limb status in a contemporary pre-industrial population.
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DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23214
Abstract: OBJECTIVES Modern humans may have gracile skeletons due to low physical activity levels and mechanical loading. Tests using pre-historic skeletons are limited by the inability to assess behavior directly, while modern industrialized societies possess few… read more here.
Keywords: status; horticulture; sds decade; later life ... See more keywords