Just chiming in to say that you’re very, very wrong about prevalence of minor and major disease throughout human history. For an obvious comparison, look at wild animals, which contract multiple minor infections a year, and often suffer from several fairly major ones chronically—which was typical for pre-modern humans as well.
Just chiming in to say that you’re very, very wrong about prevalence of minor and major disease throughout human history. For an obvious comparison, look at wild animals, which contract multiple minor infections a year, and often suffer from several fairly major ones chronically—which was typical for pre-modern humans as well.