In a message dated 1/28/00 5:55:29 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> Therefore a gradual evolution towards eating grains
> would occur because these children would reach the age
> of reproduction while the others would not.
> Comments?
Antibiotics haven't been around long enough to halt evolution, and if they
are halting evoluation, it will be many more generations before we could
observe it. We're talking about less than 100 years of antibiotics -- versus
10,000 years of agriculture.
Kim
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