Why 2 million years of human evolution matters to your health
We have been evolving as a species for approximately 2 million years & around 10,000 years ago we started eating grains and dairy. In the past 100 years farming has become industrialised on a large scale, leading to factory farming methods and a huge input of pharmaceuticals and pesticides. I first became interested in how evolution impacts our health and well being 13 years ago when I was pregnant with my first child and wanted to know how we have evolved to give birth. I f