Compare skeletons: Hunter-gatherers vs early farmers.
Height: Farmers are 6 inches shorter on average.
Bone density: Significantly reduced in farmers.
Dental health: Farmers have rampant cavities. Hunter-gatherers have perfect teeth.
Nutritional stress markers: Visible in farmer bones. Absent in hunter-gatherers.
This happened within 2-3 generations of adopting agriculture.
The same populations. Different diets. Catastrophic health decline.
We traded meat for grains. Became shorter, weaker, sicker.
This is in the archaeological record. Published. Peer-reviewed.
Agriculture enabled population growth. But individuals suffered.
Quality for quantity.
The skeletons show exactly what happened when humans stopped eating primarily meat.
We broke.
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