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

From: Ramez Naam (mez@apexnano.com)
Date: Tue Apr 15 2003 - 20:39:27 MDT

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    From: Damien Sullivan [mailto:phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu]
    > > those became risk factors. 75% of them were dead by age
    > > 18! So this
    >
    > Cite for that number?

    Hayflick, _How and Why We Age_, see the mortality curves for
    prehistoric populations.

    Also see Steve Austad, _Why We Age_ for a qualitative discussion of
    the same phenomenon.

    Also refer to Austad's book for a good discussion of why evolution had
    little or no power over age-related diseases in humans, the same
    diseases that now kill virtually everyone in the developed world.

    mez

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