Blame backbone fractures on evolution, not osteoporosis

Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 02:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Osteoporosis is blamed for backbone fractures. The real culprit could well be our own vertebrae, which evolved to absorb the pounding of upright walking, researchers at Case Western Reserve University say.

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