Rather than viewing my back problems as an individual failure, I learned to view them as a consequence of weaknesses that evolved along with humans.
Tag: paleopathology
Even Neanderthals Had Back Pain
This article is devoted to the bad spines of hominins that walked upright, but weren’t fully human in the sense of being Homo sapiens. That may sound like an oddly specific topic, but it still breezes through about 3.5 million years of history.