Bones never lie
How evolutionary medicine impacts modern medical understandings.
By MAAYAN HOFFMAN
May 4, 2018 00:53
As anthropologists say, bones never lie.
Scientists at Tel Aviv University’s Dan David Center for Human Evolution and Biohistory Research take this a step further. They believe that research conducted on Tel Aviv University’s Biological Anthropology Collection of unique specimens gathered throughout the Levant over 80 years paint a detailed and accurate picture of ancient life ranging from demography, health and diet, to the division of labor, religious beliefs, ancestral cult and much more.
Now, TAU anthropologists are using this research to demonstrate that the interaction between our biological and cultural development can teach us a lot about the emergence of disease – how and why diseases evolved and why they disappeared.
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Bones-never-lie-553487
