A genetic variant associated with impulsivity, novelty seeking, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) might have actually been adaptive
in nomadic populations, according to a recent study by Dan Eisenberg at Northwestern University.
Not exact matches
Nazi racist ideology has its roots
in hindu, pagan Egypt, ancestral home land of Saxons, meaning tied to or forged with essence, meanings god's, subcontinent never was part of hindu denial of truth absolute but hinduism, racism was imposed by force by hindu's, criminals of Egypt and Persia on
nomadic population of subcontinent by declaring themselves to be god's, while native's of Europe were slaughtered to extinction by hindu Gaul's, criminal self centered after they were defeated as hindu, deniers of truth abolute Pharaoh's by the king's of Sudan.
And Whitman's gnawing fear was expressed
in imagery almost identical with that of Jefferson: «If the United States, like the countries of the Old World, are also to grow vast crops of poor, desperate, dissatisfied,
nomadic, miserable - waged
populations, such as we see looming upon us of late years — steadily, even if slowly, eating into them like cancer of lungs or stomach — then our republican experiment, notwithstanding all its surface - successes, is at heart an unhealthy failure.
The influx of
nomadic populations into east - central Europe
in the fifth century AD may have caused enormous political upheaval and documented episodes of violence, but isotopic evidence shows people finding strategies to mitigate and perhaps even to benefit from these changes by modifying their subsistence economies.»
It was also observed that
in the 1960s the prevalence of coronary heart disease among the
nomadic pastoralists
in Xinjiang
in northern China who consumed large quantities of animal fat from grass - fed, free - ranging animals was more than seven times higher than that of other
populations both within Xinjiang and throughout China which consumed significantly less animal fat.33 These observations support the suggestion that cardiovascular disease was common among the Mongols of the 13th century who subsisted almost exclusively on a diet based on grass - fed, free - ranging animals.»
Nadia and Saeed, lovers who meet
in an unnamed city embroiled
in civil war, flee through a mysterious blackened doorway that lands them
in Greece, part of a
nomadic population that will never know the idea of home again.
On the other side of the continent,
in the West African Sahel,
nomadic herders are at risk of many infectious diseases including epidemic malaria and bacterial meningitis (both deadly to non-immune
populations and thus the cause of catastrophic health problems that severely hamper social and economic development
in the region).
Even the Bushmen of the Kalahari, arguably one of the most
nomadic cultures
in one of the Earth's most harsh desert environments managed to achieve a
population density of 1 person per square mile or more.
Imagine being a farmer a thousand years from now
in the midst of an exploding hungry
nomadic population with no property rights.