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Dr. Shaw published a study earlier this year in the Journal of Human Evolution that focused on the mobility of late Pleistocene men and women, who lived at least 12,000 years ago. Fossilized bones believed to have come from this time period were collected from various parts of the world and analyzed in terms of rigidity and size.

Compared to the bone structures of today's men and women, these ancient skeletal remains were observed to be both larger and stronger, probably due to the hunting and gathering techniques that were required at the time in order to eat. Long before the days of structured farming, humans had to run very long distances daily to collect food, not to mention have the ability to use heavy tools to capture it.

"We do much, much less than our ancestors, and our skeletons reflect this decrease in activity," said Robb Wolf, author of The Paleo Solution, as quoted by

Modern farming techniques have made people lazier, weaker

Dr. Shaw's study coincides with another one recently published by one of his colleagues, Alison Macintosh. Her paper, entitled "From athletes to couch potatoes: Humans through 6,000 years of farming," addresses the advent of industrialized farming, which she says changed everything. When hunter-gatherer societies switched to structured agriculture, the human frame took a huge hit.

After analyzing skeletal remains gathered from a more recent time period between 5300 BC and 850 AD, Macintosh and her colleagues compared their density and size to the bones of undergraduates attending Cambridge University today. Not only has the average skeletal frame shrunk in size since that time, but it has also become weaker and less rigid.

"The average U.S. citizen is considerably less fit than the average hunter-gatherer or forager," stated Dr. Loren Cordain, a professor emeritus of health and exercise science at Colorado State University and author of the book The Paleo Diet. Based on these two studies, the average male farmer 7,300 years ago was as fit as a cross-country runner today.


The hunters and gatherers of old are also believed to have consumed a much different diet than the average person today. Instead of heavy amounts of carbohydrates and sugar, the Paleolithic diet, which today has become something of a fad, was composed primarily of healthy fats, meat-based proteins and carbohydrates from plant-based sources rather than grains.

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