Botswana: Growth Of The Kalahari Desert’s Bushman - The Ju/’hoansi San

Botswana: Growth Of The Kalahari Desert’s Bushman - The Ju/’hoansi San Hasan Eideh, Bjorn Jonsson, and Ze’ev Hochberg, 2012 Aim: The Ju/’hoansi San (JHS) of the Kalahari Desert are the archetype of a hunter-gatherer society that practices natural fertility, living on a rich diet in a harsh environs. Methods: To explore the evolutionary adaptation of child growth under such conditions, the present study takes a life history approach and compares the growth data of 140 JHS females and...

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