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

From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 24 2003 - 16:15:57 MDT

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    On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 09:24:12AM -0700, Ramez Naam wrote:

    > 2) Historical data on the decreased health of early farmers vs. the
    > hunter-gatherers that immediately preceded them.
    >
    > Frankly, I find #2 far more convincing than #1. And with #2 there are
    > still many confounding factors: farming led to greater population
    > density which increased disease; early farmers may have eaten a

    Farmers weren't getting enough to eat...

    -xx- Damien X-)

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