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The paper reviews publications in human paleopathology since about 1960, especially with regard to the implications of disease in man's evolution. Recent publications pertaining to pathology and illness in present day “primitive” societies that might be analogous to conditions prevailing in the past, are also noted.
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Marcus S. Goldstein (1969) studied this question.
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