RE: evolution and diet

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Apr 24 2003 - 00:11:24 MDT

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    Damien Sullivan wrote:

    >> 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...

    As I wrote to Eliezer, this answer shifts the question from the dairy and
    grain farmers over to you. (I would like to say that it shifts the
    "burden-of-proof" over to you but this term seems to get some people's
    shorts in wad).

    If you believe we've evolved so much in the last 12,000 years then you need
    to explain, for example, how it is that humanity could be fully adapted to
    dairy given that a very large percentage of humans, perhaps even the
    majority, find it so difficult to digest milk sugar in adulthood. You need
    to explain why it is that even the bodies of people of European descent
    down-regulate production of the lactase enzyme in the first two years of
    life. It seems the human genome does not expect milk in adulthood.

    -gts



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