Evolutionary Mismatch

An evolutionary mismatch centers on the hypothesis that modern humans did not evolve to consume a grain-based diet, and lack of long-distance daily endurance activities.

An example of this occurred about 12,500 years ago as humankind began to transition to becoming agriculturalists, which consisted of consuming a higher grain-based diet, during what is called the Neolithic Revolution, in upper Mesopotamia, called the Fertile Crescent.

By analyzing teeth and bones from Neolithic populations, Paleoanthropologists have observed a general trend of declining health among Neolithic people in this region, in comparison to their hunter-gatherer, Paleolithic predecessors.

Neolithic populations generally had poorer nutrition, shorter life expectancies, and a more labor-intensive, (worked-longer hours), lifestyle than hunter-gatherers.

In addition, agriculturalists moved animals into close proximity to where they lived allowing diseases, (zoonotic), to jumped from animals to humans. Agriculturalists suffered from more anemia, vitamin deficiencies, spinal deformations, and dental pathologies than hunter gathers.

Nature Got It Right

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