ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Epidemiological Transition, Paleolithic Diet, Zoonosis
24 Jan 2017
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Paleolithic diet - lots of vegetables, low in fat, sodium, and carbohydrates. Little of no diseases of af uence : heart disease etc. Epidemiology - study of the determinants, dynamics, and distribution of disease. Associated with major changes in human way of life. Shifts in human ecology > new disease ecology > emerging or new diseases. Food production altered human relationships with environment. Archaeological evidence ~10, 000 - 12, 000 y. a. Cultivation - taking care of plants and animals. Domestication - plants and animals under human contol; involves genetic changes that makes plants and humans better suited for human control. Change in the way humans interact with their environment. Changes in demography (how many people we have, how old they are getting, population density), economy (rise of else groups, developments of hierarchy) New opportunities of zoonoses - infectious diseases acquired from animals. Sedentism - garbage and human waste accumulate. High population densities favour herd diseases (person > person)
