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2025-02-11 12:28 UTC

However… Depicting the ideal body proportions associated with higher survival chances is all well and good, but knowing the ideal does not help achieve it. And why would they need a reminder of how to survive? That's a quite problematic assumption. It also skips another aspect of survival, namely being able to outrun or defend oneself against other predators, who in colder periods of scarcity will be more opportunistic. (5/12)

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@cassana@the-crossroads-inn.com 2025-02-11 12:28

Based on studies of muscle attachment points, palaeolithic women were on a whole lean and brawny, with a muscle mass and bone density higher than top female athletes nowadays. The figurines' pendulous breasts don't match with that, but the low waist-to-hip ratios (averaging around 0.65) could be partially explained by predominantly sitting in resting squat or kneeling positions, possibly emphasised by female steatopygia, increased fat on the buttocks/hips to meet higher energy needs. (6/12)

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