Change of the human body over time

Bumpo, sounds interesting.

Dont know why, but in my head old time soldiers were short but thick+strong as fuck. Just imagine pitbulls

>>1496346
Certainly shorter, most likely underfed, depending on the kind of work he did he might have spinal problems, arthritis and who knows what else

>>1496346
>back then was a lot "fitter" (both in actual physical capabilites and also visually)

Physically, on average, they were. Visually? Lots of people were skinny as fuck.

>what they considered a huge and massive warrior would today
be your average gym-goer?

You are taking all civilizations into account. It highly depends. The average person that hits the gym nowadays has no knowledge of what (s)he is doing and is just doing repetitive movements for some muscle growth. Technique, which humans nowadays highly lack, was (and still is) crucial in combat.

>What about other things like immune system?

Our immune system hasn't changed greatly in just a couple thousands of years. People were way more likely to die in the past, obviously.

>Would someone that survived childhood and became an old man be healther than todays elderly or a near-deaf, near blind, toothless guy?

We do anything to keep people of old age alive. Human beings couldn't deliver such a high level of medical care in the past, so people were likely to die when a mild virus hit.

>What about hair?
>Did as many people go bald as today?
>Were people more or less hairy compared to today?
>What about bone density or wound healing?

Do you really think the human body changed that much in a couple of thousand years due to evolution? These changes are very slow.

>How would the body of an average medieval peasant be different from an average western european person today?

Peasants were left untreated, so injuries, infections and any other ailment would both build and stack up.

>>1497378
>Do you really think the human body changed that much in a couple of thousand years due to evolution? These changes are very slow.
Read 10,000 year explosion

Over millions of years of evolution did this.

However we can simply replicate this effect by doing selective breeding. This is how we were able to tame dogs pretty fast. This is how some russian scientists was able to tame wild fox within his lifetime.

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Domesticated_Red_Fox

>>1497394

It says we must have changed a lot, but has only a few specific examples.

And are there any environments that select for lower intelligence? Tasmania?

I prefer the female body just as it has entered fertility

>>1497378
I think OP is also referring to changed allele expression due to environment. I imagine a child in Ancient Greece would develop a different immune system than someone born in NY city. Lack of food probably also caused significant differences as well for similar reasons.

But yes OP people were pretty cardiovascularly fit but not very big. A guy with a 4 month workout routine would probably be considered pretty ripped.

>>1497432
I suppose.

But the ability to ingest milk and its products is a pretty big change

>>1497378
>Physically, on average, they were. Actually I wouldn't be too sure about that, at all. Malnutrition does a lot of damage
>Technique, which humans nowadays highly lack, was (and still is) crucial in combat.
People who do martial arts have fine technique. your average Gym goer would obviously not be great warriors but some BJJ fag might be
>Our immune system hasn't changed greatly in just a couple thousands of years.
It did because of the pressure pathogens have put on us. This is probably the quickest thing to change in any animal. It's fundamentally the same but it's adapted to deal with things like Black Death and shit
>These changes are very slow.
Evolution tends to happen in "leaps" though our appearance is roughly the same obviously

>>1497378
>Do you really think the human body changed that much in a couple of thousand years due to evolution? These changes are very slow.
yes