From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 23 2003 - 20:56:41 MDT
> gts wrote:
> >Would Mr. Hugh M. Species in 12,000 BC have been acting unreasonably if he
> >asked the new dairy and grain farmers to prove their case that their
> >new-fangled foods were healthy additions to the diet? Please answer this
No. But this isn't 12,000 BC. This is after 12,000 years of eating the grain
and dairy foods, and especially with recent evidence about the speed of
evolution that nullifies or at least weakens the evolutionary argument. It's
not like evolution need have that much of a memory. You adapt to your
environment; if the environment changes with strong selective pressure, you
adapt to the new environment. Well, hopefully. But at any rate you don't get
to assume we're still adapted to what we were adapted to 12,000 years ago.
After all, if the diet makes that much of a difference, that's a strong
selective pressure...
-xx- Damien X-)
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