On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Amadeus Schmidt wrote:

> The real difference is availability.
> Wrangham's tubers would be much easier and more reliable to "hunt" than
> gazelles, I suppose. So that's the argument what's left.

I think that would depend on many factors: location, season, etc.
Remember that tubers are an entire class of plant foods, while
gazelles are only a single type of game animal.  When the hunters
don't get a gazelle, they can try for a boar, a turtle, a duck, a
crab, and so forth.

> How did you like my venus of Willendorf as a paleo-DHA-attractiveness
> demonstration?

I leave it to you to present the argument -- that men like big
boobs because they symbolize big brains -- to the academic
community.  I think it's an idea whose time has come.

Todd Moody
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