On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, John C. Pavao wrote:

> How could a population be adapted to a situation that hadn't yet occurred?

        NEVER anthropomorphize Mother Nature!  Just as Thaliminide
children are adapted to live in an aquatic environment, pre-agricultural
type-A's were better adapted to agriculture.  Human beings, as with all
other lifeforms, are mutating constantly, and the mutations are either
selected against, for, or neither by various pressures.

> I don't think you'll find that evidence, because the appearance of
> agriculture and civilzation more or less did away with natural selection,
> no?

        With agriculture the human species now has pressure on it to be
able to eat the inedible.  So you get populations like Turanians and
Europeans who are lactose tolerent, Africans became depigmented in order
to make up for vitimen loss.  The two big factors for evolution are
starvation (it causes Cell Dogma to break down) and infection (ditto).
When Cell Dogma breaks down, DNA can be re-writtian.  It's not like the
comic book "Hulk" or "Spiderman" mutations, but it can be passed on to
offspring.  It is starvation that created man out of the primates.
Otherwise, we'd all be fruitarians.  Metabolism is the main thing a body
is designed around.