Behold! The Naked Ape
Survival of the Fittest: A Primer on Evolutionary Medicine
Jun 16, 2025
Evolutionary medicine is a legitimate but rather obscure branch of medicine. It studies humans and their ailments from the perspective of where we came from originally.
Homo sapiens evolved on the savannas of Africa about 300,000 years ago. Just to put the timeline in perspective, Christ lived 2,000 years ago so our species came into existence 150 times that ago. And moreover our species was preceded by several less developed Homo species over a period of several million years.
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The first humans probably did not wear any clothes and lived in the open unless they could find a convenient cave for shelter. We were hunter gatherers. The food we ate was mostly eaten raw (in spite of the fact that earlier Homo … More