RE: evolution and diet (was: FITNESS: Diet and Exercise)

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 22:38:17 MDT

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    Damien Sullivan wrote:

    > On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:19:47PM -0400, gts wrote:
    >
    >>> of course alcohol isn't part of the paleodiet either.
    >>
    >> I wouldn't be so sure of that!... It's extremely likely
    >> that hominids have been...
    >
    > Very moderate, I'd think. H-Gs don't do well when faced with it.

    No doubt.

    However I recall a very amusing recent documentary on some cable channel
    like national geographic or discovery channel, about a population of monkeys
    that live on some exotic resort island somewhere. The monkeys on that island
    have learned to steal and drink the alcoholic drinks of the tourists. They
    sneak up on the tourists behind their backs and drink their drinks before
    the tourists can catch them. The video footage was hilarious.

    The most surprising thing to me was that, unlike in human populations, the
    alcoholic monkeys most skilled at stealing and drinking the tourist's drinks
    are the *leaders* of the population. They are the alpha males.

    -gts

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