> From:    Robert Kesterson <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Cooking Fats - was Re: Christmas Pudding

> As for evolutionary speed (mentioned in another message), sometimes it
> does happen fast.  Mosquitos have evolved to be resistant to DDT, bacteria
> have evolved resistance to certain drugs, etc.  All of these are related
> to modern inventions in the last century or so, much less the last few
> thousand years.

*** Right, but mosquitos can have multiple generations per month, and 
bacteria can have multiple generations per day, so both can respond to 
evolutionary pressures much more quickly than can humans, who have multiple 
generations per century.

--Carrie