... have generally become more common in history rather than declining (Cohen 132). With this stable diet it helped them in their fight against disease. Cohen states that in an earlier chapter data suggests that hunting and gathering populations would have been visited by fewer infections and suffered lower overall rates of parasitization than most other world populations, except for those of ... small isolated groups, appear to have been relatively unimportant (Cohen 135). Overall hunting and gathering populations major health problems were quite minute. They had a very healthy diet for th...

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