On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:02 ... Phosphor wrote:

>>Since fishing didn't evolve until 20,000 years ago,
>>how did man obtain these relatively rare fats needed
>>for brain development if he wasn't eating fish?>
>
>one of the low points in this list has been the ludicrous assumption that
>man could not or did not eat fish, as well as shellfish and eel, turtles,
>from the word go.

Quite so.  Tony McMichael's book Human Frontiers refers to the migration
of Homo sapiens out of Africa to Australia (arriving here about 70,000
years ago) along the coast, all the while subsisting primarily on seafood -
 and acquiring a protective dark skin along the way.

Keith