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Re: How fire made us human
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Robert Kesterson <[log in to unmask]>
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Paleolithic Eating Support List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:07:09 -0500
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On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:01:08 -0500, william <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> This should not be a popularity contest. A diet should be what people  
> ate, not what someone claimed that they ate.

That's all we have for paleolithic -- there are no survivors or  
eyewitnesses, so all we have is a best guess based on secondary evidence.

> The  assumption seems to be that paleolithic man was as stupid as  
> neolithic.

I see no reason to believe otherwise.  If our bodies haven't had time to  
adapt to the post-paleo world, then neither have our brains.

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   Robert Kesterson
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