Chapter 12: The Root of the Matter: Farming and Its Consequences
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- CHAPTER 12 THE ROOT OF THE MATTER: FARMING AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
- BIG QUESTIONS
- The Agricultural Revolution: New Foods and New Adaptations
- Population Pressure
- Regional Variation
- HOW DO WE KNOW?: What People Ate: Reconstructing Diet with Chemistry
- Survival and Growth
- Agriculture: An Adaptive Trade-Off
- Population Growth
- Environmental Degradation
- CONCEPT CHECK: The Good and Bad of Agriculture
- ANTHROPOLOGY MATTERS: Violence in the Human Past: What Have People Done When the Food Ran Out?
- How Did Agriculture Affect Human Biological Change?
- Humanity's Changing Face
- Two Hypotheses
- Implications for Teeth
- CONCEPT CHECK: Soft Food and Biological Change
- Building a New Physique: Agriculture's Changes to Workload/Activity
- HOW DO WE KNOW: Bones and Behavior
- CONCEPT CHECK: Labor, Lifestyle, and Adaptation in the Skeleton
- Health and the Agricultural Revolution
- Population Crowding and Infectious Disease
- The Consequences of Declining Nutrition: Tooth Decay
- Nutritional Consequences Due to Missing Nutrients: Reduced Growth and Abnormal Development
- Nutritional Consequences of Iron Deficiency
- Nutritional Consequences: Heights on the Decline
- CONCEPT CHECK: Health Costs of Agriculture
- If It Is So Bad for You, Why Farm?
- ANSWERING THE BIG QUESTIONS
- Key Terms
- Additional Readings
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