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The new i choose is "Cows are key to 2,500 years of human progress" in the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/apr/04/milk-european-social-history. This news is about the factor the progress in roman’s civilization, the key for progress is consumed of milk.
A study of the remains of almost 20,000 people dating from the 8th century BC to the 18th century AD lived in the Roman Empire. In this period has found reduced our level of nutrition, but in the dark ages this level increased again. ¿Why level increased? This investigation answers the question.
This investigation is realized for Nikola Koepke of Oxford University, which combines biology and archaeology. This investigator takes anthropometric, suggests longer bone length is indicative of improved diet. This study is about the effect of the industrial revolution and he analysts the skeletal remains of more than 18.500 individuals of both genders from all social classes, from 484 European archaeological dig sites.
Koepke says, the key factor in determining average height growth over the past 2,500 years has been the increased consumption of milk as a result of the spread of, and improvements in, farming. Koepke writes. "Correspondingly, this determinant is the key factor in causing significant European regional differences in mean height."
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