In the Tel Aviv 360 podcast series, we are hosting Prof. Hila May from the Faculty of Medicine, who talks about the difference between human bones today and those of the past, and the price we pay for progress.
Since the agricultural revolution, mankind has been undergoing very rapid processes and changes, which affect all areas of life, and especially life itself. We live longer, but move less, eat more, but are less healthy, we have more medicines, but also more diseases. The collision between rapid changes in behavior and technology and the slowness of evolution gives us much, but exacts high prices from us.
The question in this episode is – what’s next? What’s the next step in evolution? What will we look like in the future? And the guest is Professor Hila May, a medical anthropologist at the Faculty of Medicine. We talked about the “magic of bones” and what they tell us, about the difference between human bones today compared to those of the past, about the price we pay for progress, about how we managed to “defeat” natural selection, and what can be done to minimize the damage – including tips!
And of course: what can we say about the direction in which we are evolving as a species, about our future. What will our great-great-granddaughter's grandson look like? What does processed food do to the jaws of the future? How will the babies of tomorrow be born and what will life in space do to human life?
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If there is no evolution as the anonymous person points out here
So we look like we look compared to
The findings are hundreds of thousands of years old from which the gap arises…
There is no evolution. What you wrote here is just degeneration of the bones.