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> Marilyn > I wonder if for the most part cancers would have affected the paleolithic if they had actually lived long enough?
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> The quick and dirty answer is no. I believe it was Cordain who said that older paleo skeletons showed none of the signs of the diseases of civilization.
That says nothing about cancer... first of all very few cancers
would leave any evidence on skeletal remains, and secondly we
just don't have enough skeletons to get a good sample.
:j