SAMA HOOLE: The skeletons don't lie. The transition from hunting to farming was a health disaster.

10,000 BC: Humans hunt megafauna. Average height: 5'9". Bone density: exceptional. Teeth: perfect. Brain: 1,400cc. Chronic disease: zero. Diet: 60-80% calories from animal fat. 9,000 BC: Agricultural revolution begins. First farmers start eating grains instead of hunting. 8,000 BC: Skeletal analysis shows what happened next:

Height drops 6 inches within generations. Bone density decreases dramatically. Dental cavities appear for first time in human fossil record. --Sama Hoole

10,000 BC: Humans hunt megafauna. Average height: 5'9". Bone density: exceptional. Teeth: perfect. Brain: 1,400cc. Chronic disease: zero.

Diet: 60-80% calories from animal fat.

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— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) November 25, 2025

10,000 BC: Humans hunt megafauna. Average height: 5'9". Bone density: exceptional. Teeth: perfect. Brain: 1,400cc. Chronic disease: zero. Diet: 60-80% calories from animal fat. 9,000 BC: Agricultural revolution begins. First farmers start eating grains instead of hunting. 8,000 BC: Skeletal analysis shows what happened next: Height drops 6 inches within generations. Bone density decreases dramatically. Dental cavities appear for first time in human fossil record. Nutritional deficiencies visible in bones. Skeletal deformities from malnutrition. Lifespan actually decreases despite "settled civilisation." Archaeological term for this: "Agricultural decline" or "Neolithic decline." We traded individual health for population growth. Quality for quantity. Agriculture wasn't progress. It was adaptation to scarcity after we hunted fat-rich megafauna to extinction. We were so good at hunting that we eliminated our primary food source and needed a backup plan. The backup plan kept us alive. But we got shorter, weaker, sicker. The skeletons don't lie. The transition from hunting to farming was a health disaster. But it allowed population explosion, so civilisation formed anyway. We've been paying for it ever since.