Re: Experiences with Atkins diet

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 17:41:36 MDT

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    > > 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."

    Yes, that's exactly what Eli is saying you mean, and is the classic
    logic error. Evolution says that existing organism A is very likely
    to be better adapted to its historical environment X than is
    organism B that became extinct in environment X. It /does not follow/
    from this that organism A is better adapted to environment X than it
    is to environment Y, whatever Y may be. 

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