Frequent disturbances enhanced the resilience of past human populations
Philip Riris,
Fabio Silva,
Enrico Crema
et al.
Abstract:The record of past human adaptations provides crucial lessons for guiding responses to crises in the future. To date, there have been no systematic global comparisons of humans’ ability to absorb and recover from disturbances through time. We present results of the first attempt to synthesise resilience across a broad sample of prehistoric population time frequency data, spanning 30,000 years of human history. Cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis of population decline show that frequent disturbances enhan… Show more
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