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Farming for Millennia Has Done Something Strange to Human Noses
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Farming for Millennia Has Done Something Strange to Human Noses

VICE·Luis Prada·about 1 month ago
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Given enough time, our collective day-to-day activities may one day directly influence the course of human evolution. Who knows what sitting on our asses and playing video games all day will do to the human race, considering that, according to new research published in Cell Reports , many thousands of years of farming seem to have changed the form and function of our noses. The study focuses on the Orang Asli, the indigenous population in Malaysia, and the oldest inhabitants of peninsular Malaysia. Particularly, it focused on three groups who all had different lifestyles. There were the hunter-gatherer Negritos, the foraging Senoi, and the farming Jakun. Researchers found that the way these separate groups lived shaped their culture, but also directly shaped their biology . Videos by VICE Humans have around 800 genes tied to our sense of smell, though those have degraded over time as our vision took greater priority.…

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