Healthy Hominids

Let’s begin with medicine from back in the day

How did this evolve?

And watch out for mismatched environments

Six categories evolutionary framing

Mixed with some hip-hop to show it’s entertaining

Natural selections limitations, ask

About the mismatch between today and the past

Regarding the environment, it didn’t happen magically

Happy accident? Pathogens evolve rapidly

Invisible ninjas attackin’ us better with stealth

Trade-offs between costs and benefits to health

And plus, survival matters even less than reproduction

MCs are stuntmen, Evil Kineval jumpin’

Useful defenses that look like diseases

Like a fever, that’s how a virus gets heated and deleted

So get your body energized, memorize

Field of evolutionary medicine identified

The hygiene hypothesis, I’m making you listen

Sick dirty grimy beats boost your immune system

Evolution, medicine is part of it

Here’s a hypothesis, let me tell you something

An idea for humans known as ‘persistence hunting’

Because we evolved through a bunch of combinations

To run down prey with long-distance adaptations

Not a grooms BFF but yo, that’s the best man

Bodies finding ways to cool off using sweat glands

Now we wear sweatpants and shoes, let me explain this

Over deep time, leg and foot anatomy changes

Combined with the big brains required

To track a single animal until it’s very tired

By following complex signs and reasoning

Track a wild boar, make carnitas with some seasoning

Catch them in groups, find their paths and location

So now with your quail eggs you can have some bacon

Humans are born to run, hunt and argue, see

We come from a place where survival depended on all three!

Why we get sick

We crave nutrients that were scarce in the past

Now sugar, salt and grease is in the food that is fast

The Boomerang Effect, not blooming onion wait

But if I eat too many I’ll be Paul Bunyan’s weight

How did Babe the Blue Ox get so tall? 

Maybe Paul evolved so he could dunk a basketball

Now we can reach massive heights, me I be rappin’ nice

Human ancestors had more intestinal parasites

‘Worms Our Old Friends’ can you believe it?

Without ’em we have more autoimmune diseases

Systems on high alert, now we call a medic first

And we have a metaverse; there goes our genetic quirks

It’s an arms race, looking for some brain space

I’m saying, that’s the cost of staying in the same place

This fellas gotta live, feeling hella positive

Zeps – now I’m livin’ like a healthy hominid

How did this evolve?