From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 16:44:46 MDT
Behalf Of Eliezer S. wrote:
> gts wrote:
> >
>> I have faith in the *science* of evolution, yes. I believe
>> it is well established that living organisms are best adapted to the
>> environments in which they evolved. This principle is applicable to
diets. I
>> mentioned that in my view humans are as well adapted to paleodiets as
>> giraffes are well adapted to eating the leaves of tall trees. In
>> giraffes this dietary adaptation is extremely obvious. Unfortunately
>> in humans our dietary adaptive traits are mostly invisible,
>> buried in our metabolisms.
>
> Gts, I say again that you are making the classic Panglossian
> error
I disagree.
> Living organisms are
> adapted to the environments in which they evolved. That is,
> when living organisms adapt, they adapt to their environments, rather
> than something else.
Exactly.
> It does not follow that an organism is "best adapted"
> or even "well adapted" to that environment.
By "best adapted" I mean "genetically adapted best to the organism's own
environment vs some other environment in which the organism did not evolve."
> The diet that is best suited to an organism that adapted to a
> paleolithic diet is not necessarily a paleolithic diet.
Eliezer, how many times must I repeat myself?? If you are not going to read
my messages carefully please don't respond to them. I have stated numerous
times, including in my last message here to addressed specifically *YOU*,
that I do not reject the notion that the paleodiet can be improved by modern
medical and nutritional science.
It so happens that I consume many non-paleo substances on a daily basis,
including extremely non-paleolithic chemicals like aminoguanidine and
selegiline.
-gts
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