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On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:37:00 -0500, Paleo Phil <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Robert Kesterson:
>> If you believe that evolution works (which is the whole premise for
>> this diet), then the fact that we are here and primitive man is not must
>> mean that we were superior in some way.
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> This is the same sort of rationale that led Europeans to determine that
> they were "superior" to American Indians, Africans, and other peoples
> they
> conquered.
I certainly didn't mean it that way, and apologize if I offended anyone by
it.
> The fact that there are many more modern people today than primitiveonly
> means that agricultural populations outbred hunter-gatherer populations,
> decimated HG populations with the epidemics that result from agriculture
> and cities, and slaughtered many of the HG survivors.
Aside from the slaughter part (which I certainly don't condone),
"out-breed and out-live" *is* how evolution works.
> Jared Diamond, Daniel Quinn, Loren Cordain and others make a strong case
> that rather than being seen as "superior," modern civilization and modern
> people have experienced some downsides from abandoning the
> hunter-gatherer way of life.
Oh, I agree wholeheartedly. I just mean that the notion that primitive
man was "superior in every way" was just a bit much.
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Robert Kesterson
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