Martha said:
>Ward, your self-assured writing and big words almost intimidated me
>from replying,

Hmmm... I will try not to be so assured or convincing next time... :-)
<just a joke>

Seriously, I was afraid of this. Sigh... if so, the fault is probably mine.

>but there's something I'm just not getting. I've been
>following (I think) your and Bob's arguments on adaptation to meat.
>Maybe it's the word "adaptation" that I'm stumbling over.  It seems to
>me that there could be persistent behaviors that we adapt to in the
>sense that they don't significantly slow down our reproduction, yet we
>don't need them, and may even be marginally better off without them.
> What am I missing here?  In layperson's language.

Martha, unfortunately I guess now I am the one who is unclear. :( Could you
give an example to illustrate such a behavior? Thanks,

--Ward Nicholson <[log in to unmask]> Wichita, KS