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Part 1: The Body Through The Ages
Body Electric
The Evolution of Labour
The speaker, a professor of English and Environmental Humanities, discusses the impact of changes in human work on our bodies over time. The evolution of labour has led to significant changes in our bodies, influenced by the variety of tasks performed by hunter-gatherers in the Paleolithic era. Humans in that period were tall and skinny, with bodies suited for climbing and movement in the African savannah. This period of foraging, hunting, and fishing lasted for hundreds of thousands of years before significant changes occurred about 12,000 years ago.
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